The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there are many thieves in the grass.

After Song You rested for the night, he walked from the ferry to Lingbo County, a journey of nearly 100 miles, except for the twists and turns of the mountain roads and the dense grass and forests, there were two groups of bandits who stopped them alone.

When one of them saw that he was a true Taoist, they let him go and talked to him for a while. The other group coveted his horse, until he reported to his home, showed the excerpts, and used a little means to confirm that he was not only a true Taoist priest but also a little capable, so they reluctantly let him go.

If you want to talk about money, Song You still has some on him.

When he went out, he brought about twenty taels of silver, and a group of merchants on Jinyang Road gave ten taels, and the reward for the thieves in the land was another twenty taels. However, Yidu's consumption is quite high, and after living for half a year, Song You has hardly treated himself badly in life, although there are some scattered income from drawing talismans, he still spent nearly twenty taels.

The rest originally wanted to buy a horse and mule, and then left some for the original funds to set off again after the beginning of spring, and then he was presumptuous when he had money, and saved some if he didn't have money, but it didn't matter to him, but the horse didn't cost money, so he saved a lot of money.

If these thieves knew that he had nearly thirty taels of silver on him, they probably wouldn't let him go so easily.

It was the next morning.

Song You distinguishes the north according to the direction of the sun, but in fact, it is not very accurate, firstly, the sunrise is not necessarily due east, and secondly, the division of the east, west, north and south of the city is not necessarily accurate.

It was close to noon.

found Ganzao Lane, and asked Chen Han's house again.

When he arrived at the door, the sun was already overhead, and Song You stood at the door, hoping that this Chen Han had not moved and was at home today.

It's already extremely difficult to send letters, so don't bother anymore.

So he snapped the knocker lightly, and the tuk tuk sounded.

Soon there was the sound of talking and footsteps. The footsteps were getting closer and closer, stopping at the door, but maybe it was just after the lunch break, tidying up the clothes, and not opening the door immediately.

I only heard the voice of a middle-aged man inside:

"Looking for whom?"

"Chen Han Chen Gong."

"Who is the gentleman?"

Song You saw him approaching the crack in the door and looked at himself through the crack in the door.

"I am a native of the mountains and wilderness, traveled through mountains and rivers, and was entrusted by Chen Gong's father to bring a letter from home."

"A letter from home? Where did it come from? ”

"Outside the city of Yidu, a roadside tea stall."

With a bang, the wooden door was immediately opened.

Inside the door was a dark and thin middle-aged man, with loose clothes and beard, and his face was vicissitudes, shocked and respectful.

"I'm Chen Han!"

"Then you've found the right one."

"Is the gentleman really from Yidu?"

"You can't fake it."

"That's 1,600 miles!"

"The waterway is easy to walk."

"Sir......"

"It doesn't have to be this way."

"Come in!!"

The middle-aged man's mouth was trembling.

Song You also stepped into the door with him.

There is a yard in it, which is neither big nor small, and there are some chickens, but you can bring the horses in.

"My horses are obedient, they don't have to be leashed, they don't walk around. My cat is also sensible and will not hurt the chickens and ducks under his feet. Song You said, casually took out the bamboo tube from the quilt bag, and handed it to the man-

"It's a good idea!"

Chen Han immediately stretched out his hands, took the bamboo tube respectfully with trembling, immediately unscrewed off the mud seal, took out the letter paper, and only read two or three lines in his hand, and his eyes were already red.

After reading it, I immediately cried.

Song You just stood quietly and watched.

I couldn't hear the words clearly in the crying, and I could only vaguely distinguish what words like "the child is not filial" and "thank you, sir".

And he had only one thought in his heart -

A family letter can really be worth 10,000 dollars.

Seeing this, she hurriedly picked up Chen Han, took out her mobile phone to wipe away his tears, asked and comforted, and persuaded him for a long time.

"Let the gentleman see it."

"Where."

"As the saying goes, my parents are not far away, but I pity me, the son of man, who is thousands of miles away, and I haven't been back for two or three years, which makes my mother sick from hard work, and I have to ask someone to bring a letter......"

"The world is not as light as in the book."

"Quick! Sanniang! Kill the chicken! ”

"Yes!"

The woman probably knew what was going on, and she didn't dare to delay at all, so she immediately went out to catch chickens.

In these years, everyone knows the difficulty of sending letters, some people come from thousands of miles to send letters, but they don't just pay the fare, eating and drinking is just etiquette, and the friendship is difficult to repay.

So in the afternoon, the Chen family started to smoke again.

Seeing this, I was the first to arrive.

Song You prefers to think that the mountains are high and the rivers are far away, the road is long and obstructive, and the rest of the people are stuck in the long way, afraid of the bandits, or have their own things delayed, not intentionally unable to send them.

Maybe someone is still halfway there.

"Sir!"

"Huh?"

"Don't leave today, sir, although the home is simple, there is also a bed for Mr. to rest, which is better than a hotel in the city and a temple outside the city." The man said to him with red eyes.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey."

At this time, there is no point in prevarication, it just makes people feel indebted, and Song You really needs a place to stay.

At that moment, there was another knock on the door outside the courtyard.

"Knock knock."

didn't use the door knocker, and the strength was slightly greater than that of Song You.

Chen Han hurriedly lifted his cuffs, wiped off the wetness on his face, said a word to Song You, and walked out quickly.

The gentleman did not stand up for the melon field and plums, and Song You also went out with him.

Before he could reach the door, he shouted:

"Dare to ask...... Who to look for? ”

A female voice came from outside:

"This is Chen Han's home?"

Chen Han glanced back at Song You, didn't dare to delay, and immediately opened the courtyard door when he walked to the door.

"Exactly!"

Outside, a man dressed in men's clothes, wrapped in a scarf, with a normal height, holding a simple long knife in his left hand, with a reins around his wrist, leading a yellow southwestern horse, and holding a bamboo tube containing a letter in his right hand, covered with exhaustion and dust.

She glanced at the room, focused on Song You, and immediately looked at Chen Han:

"You are Chen Han?"

"Exactly!"

"Entrusted by your father to bring you a letter."

As she spoke, she handed the bamboo tube to Chen Han, and there was a simple and free flow of the Jianghu people in her speech, and she paused: "But it seems that someone has already rushed ahead of me." ”

She looked at Song You, and Song You also looked at her.

Song You nodded to her.

She chuckled softly.

Thousands of miles away, mountains and rivers are heavy, and bandits are rampant, the road ahead is unpredictable, this way to send a message is not something that ordinary people can reach. Ability is secondary, and the most important thing is faithfulness.

Chen Han was grateful, thanked him repeatedly, and immediately invited them in again.

The red and yellow horses stood side by side in the courtyard.

The three of them took their seats in the hall.

Chen Han read the letter again and cried again.

The three-flowered cat jumped on the table and looked at him crying.

The woman took off the towel, which was a somewhat round face, even though her face was covered with dust and her lips were chapped, it was still difficult to hide her delicate and childish features. Walking the rivers and lakes with this face, I am afraid that only when the person has just finished cutting and carrying a bloody knife will it have a bit of deterrence.

However, as soon as she turned around, she bowed her hand to Song You:

"People in the rivers and lakes, register first, my real surname is Wu, the name is the two words, the disciple of the Yizhou Xishan faction, how do you call Mr?"

The voice is much rougher than the looks.

"The surname is Song Mingyou, the word Menglai, a mountain person in Lingquan County, Yizhou."

"Good name."

"There are also many rhymes in the name of the foot."

"It's really a Taoist in Qingcheng Mountain. But I don't think it sounds good, I'm afraid that the Taoist priest said it casually. ”

"This is the right man."

"Jianghu women, take more male names."

"I see."

Song You only felt that he had grown a little more knowledge.

"Where are you going? Arrived before me. ”

"Walked a waterway."

Song You only vaguely distinguished at this time that he came out of the tea stall at that time, walked a few steps, and when he turned around, the old man who sold tea was asking where a group of Jianghu people were going, and she was among the Jianghu people.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the memory to fade.

It would be wrong to say that it has not faded.

If it weren't for the fact that this woman had brought the letter and talked to him at this time, but had only met him by chance on the side of the road, it would not have been related to memory.

So he added:

"See you again."

"This is the third time we've met."

"Oh?"

"I seem to have seen you once at the Yidu Temple Fair before." The woman put the sword on the table, and her tone was not twisted at all, "At that time, I saw that you were wearing a Taoist robe, and you looked tender and quite conspicuous, and then I turned around and came back and saw you looking for the man who was playing tricks, hehe, we are still guessing, most of them were stolen by that man, right?" ”

"It's fate."

"Fate is fate......

The woman repeated it, but she continued to stare at Song You with an eager gaze:

"But the money was stolen?"

"Foot-to-foot bet with fellow travelers?"

"Haha, not really."

The hearty laughter from women is something that Song You rarely hears in this era.

"I'm just curious."

"He's a wonderful man."

"People in the rivers and lakes, meet in Pingshui, goodbye tomorrow, the sky and the earth are big, no one can meet anyone, I advise you not to twist, say it quickly."

"Reasonable."

Song You narrowed his eyes and nodded again and again.

It's also funny.

Then he whispered:

"Yes."

"I knew it!"

The woman seemed satisfied, and asked:

"But you're coming back?"

"I'm coming back."

"That man is very particular."

"Yes."

"But he seems to have been arrested that night, so it won't be the official you went to report."

"Not really."

"I think so. I heard that the gang had just tried to run that night, but there was a thunderstorm in the winter and a thunderbolt in the clear sky, beating them half to death. Most of them were the apparitions of King Yue's grandfather who caught them. ”

"Maybe."

Song You's interest in talking is not high.

Mr. and Mrs. Chen quickly brought the meal.

A whole old hen, fried with shiitake mushrooms, full of a large pot, fragrant and smooth, plus a pot of fried two-sided yellow, in a hurry, it is also a good dish for hospitality.

The woman is not restrained and eats meat in large quantities.

Song You didn't speak, and fed the cat while eating.

A pile of bones gradually piled up on the table, which was really refreshing.

Chen Han was a little afraid of the woman who was obviously dressed as a Jianghu person, but people sent letters all the way, how could he be polite, so he also asked the woman to stay at home. While eating the meat, the woman also agreed very happily, but she also knew that they were worried and said that she would leave tomorrow morning.