Chapter 30: Cutting Corners
"Come out, keep going!"
Song Chatou's voice fell, and several yacha who followed behind him hurriedly opened the prison door and tied up the Jing family one by one.
Although it was already dusk, they had been in their cells for nearly three days, and they had to travel day and night to catch up with the delays.
"Give each of you an extra steamed bun today, give me enough to eat, walk quickly when you are in a hurry, if you walk slowly and delay the journey, don't blame me for not having long eyes with this whip!"
Song Chatou waved his hand to make the Yacha make steamed buns, and while speaking, when he said the last sentence, he also deliberately glanced at the aunt of the Jing family.
was so frightened that the aunt of the Jing family hurriedly buried her head in eating steamed buns and almost choked herself to death.
Zuo Xingyan took out delicious food and drink as usual, and ate deliciously with Jing Beihan and a few others.
In the past few days, the people of the Jing family have been crazy by Zuo Xingyan, and across the fence of a cell, they watched Zuo Xingyan and the three of them eat and drink spicy food.
It was raining heavily yesterday, and it was a little cold in the cell, Zuo Xingyan actually asked for a pot of hot water with Song Chatou's two henchmen.
Everyone didn't know what she poured into the pot, but after a while, the hot water in the pot was overflowing, and it turned into a pot of broth in front of everyone's eyes!
Fortunately, Zuo Xingyan had an old immortal as a reason, and these people didn't dare to suspect that this matter was strange.
Anyway, in the past few days, Zuo Xingyan has been eating meat and drinking soup, and he has taken out a few meat buns at every turn, and those people in the Jing family are full of saliva just by swallowing.
Song Chatou didn't seem to see Zuo Xingyan's action of taking out the food, and walked out of the cell slowly, waiting for everyone to finish eating.
At this time, the kung fu passed, and it was darker outside, and Song Cha looked up at the sky, feeling a little worried.
Traveling at night is really not a good choice, not only is it easy to get lost, but you may also encounter some bad people.
But they have been delayed for three days, and they really can't afford to delay.
Song Chatou pondered for a while, and then instructed a yacha to prepare some torches and oil in case of emergency.
When I set off again, each of them carried a lot of things.
Dry food, water, unlit torches, and a few jugs of fire oil were filled.
In addition, the yacha also carried a burning torch in his hand, scattered around the exiled prisoners, and hurried with 120,000 points of vigilance.
After so many days of rest, even at night, everyone was not very sleepy.
Zuo Xingyan has an ability, his night vision is stronger than that of ordinary people, he can see the muddy roads under his feet, and he can avoid puddles and rocks from time to time.
And the ordinary people of the Jing family can't do it, and a few torches from the yacha can't completely illuminate the road under their feet.
Their eyes were black, and from time to time they would step on a foot of mud and splash mud soup on their trouser legs, and from time to time the crowd would let out a low curse of annoyance.
Jing Beihan looked at Zuo Xingyan, who was walking steadily, as if he knew the road under his feet well, and his eyes flashed with contemplation.
This woman doesn't have half of the internal force in her body, how does she manage to see things at night?
"Oops!" Suddenly, an exclamation interrupted Jing Beihan's thoughts.
"Mother, what's wrong with you?"
The anxious voice of the aunt of the Jing family came from the front again, and it seemed that the person who exclaimed just now was the old lady.
Zuo Xingyan tiptoed forward and learned that the old lady didn't see clearly, so she stepped into the mud pit that didn't reach the surface of her feet and broke her foot.
At this time, she was being held by the aunt of the Jing family, and she screamed in pain.
Song Chatou frowned fiercely, and was about to go over with the whip, but when he walked to Jing Zhong's side, he hurriedly pulled him back.
"Lord Song is angry, my old lady is old, and if she is really beaten, I am afraid she will not be able to walk. Don't worry, the dog and I take turns carrying her, and we won't miss the hour. ”
Jing Zhong wasn't really worried about the old lady, but he was afraid that she wouldn't be able to stand the beating, and if she really disappeared halfway, it would be a trouble for everyone.
Song Chatou heard Jing Zhong say this, and glanced at him impatiently, thinking that this person was Jing Beihan's father, and he decided to give the other party a face.
"Remember what you said, if it's delayed, even you will smoke it!"
In his heart, he planned to let the old woman go, but he was still fierce in his mouth.
Jing Zhong hurriedly thanked him, turned around and whispered to the aunt of the Jing family to help the old lady on his back.
He was wearing shackles, and he couldn't drag the old lady's legs behind his back with his two hands, so he could only let Jing Jingnian and Fan Shi drag behind him, so as not to fall to the ground.
The old lady was carried by Jing Zhong, and she was still trembling uncontrollably, and she didn't know if it was painful or frightened by Song Chatou.
"What's wrong with them?" Zuo Xingyan complained.
Jing Yannian glanced sideways at Zuo Xingyan, as if he wanted to echo her, but he didn't know what to think, his lips moved a few times, and he held back.
"When I arrived in Quanzhou, I was all settled." Jing Beihan suddenly said this.
Zuo Xingyan looked at him, "I seem to have heard someone say that Quanzhou is terrible." ”
"Everywhere there are people, it's scary, it's just not the same." Jing Beihan's voice was mocking.
"It's true, the human heart is the most terrible thing."
Zuo Xingyan had a deep understanding of these words, and couldn't help nodding.
There was a hint of sigh in her tone, and there was a hint of vicissitudes.
It's like the calm that has settled down after seeing too much ugliness of human nature.
Jing Beihan couldn't help but look at her twice, and felt more and more that she didn't look like a young lady raised in the courtyard of the deep mansion.
Everyone walked for a few hours in the night, watching the moon move slowly from one end to the other, and finally came to the edge of the sky and turned white.
At the end of the day, the sky was already bright, and Song allowed everyone to rest on the side of the road for a while.
But just after resting for a while, he didn't have a cup of tea, so he urged him to continue walking.
In order to catch up with the planned distance, you can only shorten the rest time and speed up.
The Jing family was dissatisfied, but they dared not speak out, so they had to obediently get up and continue to hurry.
There are nearly 100 miles of mountain roads ahead, and if you don't hurry up, I'm afraid you won't even have a place to rest.
Originally, they didn't have to take this rugged mountain road, but if they took the avenue, they would have to walk an extra four or five days, but Song Chatou was forced to choose this shortcut road in desperation.
Yiqi Mountain is not the name of a mountain, but is composed of several rolling peaks.
The locals did not want to name every mountain, so they called it Yiqi Mountain.
The mountain road of Yiqi Mountain is difficult and dangerous, and there are many cliffs, if you are not in a hurry, few people will choose to pass through here.
Everyone walked all night, only had time to drink two sips of water, and walked hungry all morning before they heard the sound of Song Chatou stopping to rest.
At this time, the voice was like heaven to everyone.
Zuo Xingyan is also a little tired, although he doesn't have to be hungry, his feet will hurt if he walks for too long.
Another reason is that this body is also really delicate and too weak.
If it weren't for the fact that she secretly drank two sips of spiritual spring water to recover her strength, I'm afraid she would not have been able to walk for so long.
After being exiled for so many days, it stands to reason that her physical strength should have increased, but why is it still no different from when she first crossed over?