Chapter 157 Xifeng Town (Ask for a subscription and ask for a monthly pass)
While the two of them were talking, the carriage had already walked to the cave that the ugly ugly had said.
The cave is on a south-facing slope, and the place where they are located is relatively low-lying, and it is not visible on the road to the north, which is indeed quite secret.
There are also a lot of weeds near the entrance of the cave, obviously no one has been here for a long time, and it has not been cleaned up.
Fortunately, because the grass has dried up, it is not deep, and it is still brittle to step on, making a kaka sound, and it seems that there is really little rain here.
Chou Chou also took a special look at the road behind him, and found that their carriage had left no obvious traces after it was pressed over.
This saves it, otherwise it will have to sweep away the traces, and someone will find the rut marks they turned from the road, and come to find out, but now they are not afraid.
And not long ago, the wind also became stronger, it is estimated that there are four or five levels, and the carport is a little shaky, such a strong wind, and there is no rain, it is estimated that the wheel prints and horseshoe prints on the road will be buried by the loess that blows.
Qian Yan first untied the bottle hanging on the wall of the car and put the spirit stone, and then put on the down jacket on her body, took the big spirit stone in her hand and got out of the car with the little leopard.
Lifting the spirit stone to shine on the weeds on the ground, there are more weeds at the entrance of the cave, and some of the grass vines climbing on the slope have all drooped to the entrance of the cave, some should be last year or earlier, and have been dried up, and a few of them were born this year, and now they are also a little yellow.
Qian Yan also thought about whether to ask Chou Chou for tools to clean them up, just set them on fire, there is a piece of hay here, a little fire, maybe it will burn the prairies.
The ugly ugly had already made a move, and directly used his divine sense to get all the grass off the side of the cave and threw it aside.
The current temperature is low and it's hard to wash, so I won't let Tianyan do it.
The entrance to the cave was quickly cleared, and she measured the size of the hole, and she could really drive the carriage in.
Of course, as soon as the car rushed in, it basically blocked the entire entrance to the hole, and it was enough for people to come out, but that was fine, just enough to block the inside.
Although it can't be stopped, it is also more secure than being open.
Before going in, Chou first unloaded the bear from the car, used his divine sense to get some tender grass from somewhere else, fed it, and let it go not far away.
Save going back into the cave and then think about the convenience and toss, near the entrance of the cave is not good, it is also tasteful.
Waiting for the bear to return, Tilt Yan put the carriage on it again and led it to the cave.
After entering the cave, he unloaded the car from it, and the car blocked the doorway, and although the bear could not move freely, he could also rest easily.
Take out the baggage in the carriage and let the ugly ugly into the space first, there will be nothing in it, just put the wheel on the ground, and don't need to raise it up.
This cave is quite big inside, about forty or fifty square meters, after the carriage and horses come in, they still have a place to move, and there is a soil kang in the innermost, the plate is very good, and it has not collapsed.
Although there was no futon or quilt on it, there was a very shabby straw mat.
Let the ugly ugly use his divine sense to clean it up, and now there is no straw mat, so he has to take out a plastic sheet from the space and spread it on it, and then take out the rabbit fur blanket that he had laid in the cottage before and spread it on it, and then cover it with a down jacket.
This is what she just remembered, and she forgot it when she was in the carriage before, this is made of rabbit skin that she hunted before, or was it sewn by Grandma Orchid after she arrived in Handcheng, and then she let Ugly Ugly put it into the space.
In fact, they can also try to burn the kang, but they are worried that the flue will be blocked after a long time, and they will not be able to stay in the cave when the smoke is full, so they will simply get together for the night.
Fortunately, this cave belongs to the kind of warm in winter and cool in summer, and there is no strong wind whistling outside, in fact, it is much more comfortable.
The current temperature is not too low, it should be around ten degrees, and it can still be tolerated with a down jacket.
still used the burden of the clothes as a pillow, and then hugged the ugly and the little leopard, with these two furries like hugging two small stoves, it was quite comfortable, just like that, she fell asleep after a while.
The next day, she slept directly until she woke up naturally, and after waking up for a while, she remembered where she was.
He turned his head to look at the little leopard and the ugly ugly, and found that the little leopard was playing around the horse's legs on the ground, and the big bear didn't dare to move, and the ugly didn't know where to go.
"Ugly, where are you?" Tilt spoke to it.
Ugly Ugly quickly replied: "Yanyan, you wake up, come out and wash up, I'm outside." ”
She got up and pushed the carriage outside, then led the bear out again, and the little leopard followed her in and out.
When I came out, I didn't see the ugly, but I looked to the other side, only to find that there was a pile of dry wood and a makeshift stove with a broken bottom of the jar, boiling water, and an empty wooden basin next to it.
Tilt Yan walked over quickly, and found that Chou Chou was squatting behind the pile of firewood, adding firewood to it.
Looking at the smoke that was blown away by the wind as soon as it rose up the slope, she thought that this place was so good that no one would see the smoke rising from this side.
For her, after all, she is unfamiliar with this place, and she doesn't know what this place used to be.
Looking down at the ugly and ugly person who was there with a decent boiling water, Qian Yan wanted to laugh a little.
took off the down jacket on his body, let the ugly ugly into the space, and squatted on the other side to take over the fire.
"Ugly, where did you get the bottom of this tank? It's just right to boil water. ”
Anyway, it's water for washing, and it doesn't need to be too hot, it's okay to warm it, Tilt Yan touched the water inside and added a piece of firewood, just wait for the inside to burn.
Chou Chou got up and patted the grass clippings and dust stuck to his hair, and then said to Qian Yan: "This is what I found in the water of that river, and I don't know who threw it in. ”
Although there is water in the space, since there is outside, it is better to use it sparingly, in case there is no water in the future.
And it not only hit the water, but also caught a few big fish by the way, the fish in the river are really big, one has seven or eight catties or even more than a dozen catties, it is delicious to look at.
He put all the fish in the space, thinking that when he got to the town to buy an iron pot, they could make their own food on the way.
Seeing that the water was already hot, Dump Yan asked Chouchou to take out the stainless steel water cup before and scoop the water into the wooden basin.
Then I brushed my teeth with a cup, washed my face and dried it with a towel, and rubbed some moisturizer by the way.
Fortunately, she had these in her bag before, and it was useless in the heat before, but now she uses it.
One man and one beast made do with a few pieces of dim sum mat bar mat, and prepared to go to the town for another big meal at noon.
Chouchou said that there is a tavern over there, even if it can't catch up with the food in the Xingtang Mansion restaurant before, it shouldn't be too bad, at least it won't be unpalatable.
After eating, feeding the little leopard and the big bear, he set up the car and hit the road again.
This time she spread the rabbit skin blanket on the carriage, of course, first dismantling the muslin cloth, spreading the rabbit skin blanket under the muslin, and then spreading the cloth on the blanket, so that it was soft and easy to wash.
And the muslin cloth is about the same color as the coarse cloth, and the rabbit fur blanket of the province is placed on it to attract attention, and it is often received in the space, for fear of being taken away.
The carriage came out of the wasteland and went onto the road, there was still no one on the road, and it was still bumpy, it was better to walk comfortably on the weeds, there were not so many pits that had been rolled out, and the weeds could absorb shocks.
On this road, there is a hard yellow earth, and the traces that have been pressed out by other cars before, may be the pits rolled out by the rain before, and they are hard, anyway, they are very bumpy.
Today's wind is much stronger than yesterday's, keeping it at four or five levels, and occasionally going up to six, and it feels like it's pouring wind into the carriage from behind.
But although there is no one on the road now, it is not far from the town, and there are still a few miles of land, so it is not good to take out the down jacket again, so just hold on for a while.
At this time, I had been walking out of the cave for more than an hour, and there were slowly pedestrians on the road, and I saw that the clothes should have come from the surrounding villages.
Most of the men carried burdens or wheelbarrows, and most of the women carried rattan baskets.
When those people saw this carriage, most of them looked curiously, it looked very much like her and her parents driving back to their hometown, the difference was only that they didn't get together to discuss, it seems that there should not be many carriages here.
The ugly has returned to the space, the little leopard has also been put in her satchel, and she herself has sat on the wheel to catch the carriage.
Where there are people, you have to make a show.
From time to time, she would look at the clothes or mental outlook of the passers-by she encountered, hoping to see what dynasty it was.
But the clothes on those pedestrians don't feel much different from those of the previous five dynasties and ten countries, and they are all coarse cloth clothes, but they are thicker than those worn in summer, and many people have patches on their bodies, and they don't see any muslin, but she is good.
It may be that they haven't entered the town yet, and they meet some farmers, and the only difference with those in Yangjiaping is that they all wear cloth shoes on their feet, instead of the kind of straw straw sandals.
It's understandable when you think about it, it's already cold on this day, and it's impossible to wear those kind of straw sandals like in summer.
It couldn't be seen from the clothes, so Qian Yan paid attention to their burdens, some could directly see that they were carrying cabbage, and some were carrying sacks, and it looked like they should be filled with food.
There is also a basket carried by a woman on her elbow, although the basket is mostly covered with a piece of cloth, but judging by the shape of the egg, it is estimated that it was also sold in the town for money.
While looking at the pedestrians on the road, I walked for about ten minutes, and then I arrived at the entrance of the town, and there was a stone tablet on the right, which was engraved with three big characters of Xifeng Town.
Sitting in the carriage, she observed the town, and as Chou Chou said, there were only two main streets in the town, not the kind of cross streets, but two streets side by side.
The houses on the side are not like the blue brick houses in the city, most of them are adobe tile houses, and some of the foundations below are stone.
It's just the outskirts of town, and maybe a little further inside would be better.
Sure enough, when I drove the carriage inside, most of them were turned into brick houses, and the outermost row was full of shops.
First of all, there are grain shops that sell grain and shops that sell groceries, which can be purchased when you leave, otherwise it will be inconvenient to put them in the carriage.
Almost in the center, there is a two-story house of blue brick and wood, and the plaque on it shows an inn, and next to the inn is a tavern.
The reason why it is said to be a tavern is because the name on the plaque is the Mijia Tavern, and looking at the furnishings inside through the door, it is a small restaurant that sells food.
There are only a few tables, which is really incomparable with the restaurants in the big city, but it is quite clean and tidy.
She hadn't been hungry for a long time after her snack, and although the tavern was open, there were no customers inside, just a young man who looked like a man was cleaning, and it didn't look like it had already opened.
It should be just over nine o'clock in the morning, and it's not yet time to eat.
Tilt decided to go shopping first to see if she needed all the things she needed, and then go straight to buy them when she left.
Driving the carriage to continue walking, there was a furniture store and a cloth shop, Tilt Yan went in and looked, there was only coarse cloth and fine cotton, and there was no silk and satin, Tilt Yan asked, there was no cotton, it seemed that she still had to go to the big city.
When you leave, you can buy a coarse cloth, and some needles and threads, and when the time comes, you can sew a thick dress with rabbit skin or something, and wrap it in a coarse cloth, which is low-key and warm.
She was the only carriage on the whole street, and many people looked at it, and Qian Yan was a little embarrassed to go shopping, and asked a boss who sold baked cakes if there was a blacksmith shop in the town.
The owner of the pancake seller said that the blacksmith shop was at the end of the street.
The reason why I came to the baked cake shop to inquire is because the baked cakes of this house have just come out of the oven, and the taste is so fragrant!
There was a burnt smell of wheat, and she felt hungry again when she smelled it.
I couldn't help but buy twenty of them, just to wrap up all the things that came out of his furnace, and by the way, I inquired about the blacksmith shop.
The boss probably didn't expect someone to buy so much, and he couldn't find anything to pack for a while, so he still pretended to go to the carriage and got a basket over, and the boss put a few pieces of oiled paper in it before putting the baked cakes in.
Don't look at the big basket that Qian Yan takes, there are more than half of the baskets containing twenty baked cakes, the baked cakes are very large, they are as big as her face, but they are quite cheap, as long as one penny is one, twenty only cost twenty yuan.
Fortunately, there were some scattered silver taels and copper plates left before, and the copper plates here can be used, it seems that it should not be too far from the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.