5 Chapter 5
Since we talked about injuries, I simply checked the extent of the injuries on the two of them.
Brother Chu is okay, when he fell out of the carriage, except for his forehead was swollen, everything else was bruises, even if he didn't apply ointment, it was estimated that he would be able to heal after two days.
But I hurt my brain, and there are still a few bruises on my body, I don't know if it's okay, but after I know it, my whole body hurts again.
is also Han Sanniang's body is too delicate, although Han Mufei usually attaches importance to physical fitness, but originally thought that she could live a rich life, and she didn't exercise, at most she ate a little better to replenish her blood, as for sports, hum, the daughter of a dignified family, and she pays attention to quiet and elegant, how can she be allowed to run and walk?
If she really does this, I'm afraid it will make people think that there is some kind of demon moth.
So at most, she secretly did exercises to stretch her muscles and bones, and practiced throwing pots.
After checking the condition of the two of them, Han Mufei asked Brother Chu to bring all the things on his body and count what money they had left.
In addition to the iron utensils, she picked up two bags full of clothes, one of the bags also included the money and silver and jewelry boxes she asked Hongyu to pack up, and some rouge powder, she put away the jewelry and other items as they were, put them aside, and then counted the money and silver, counting one hundred taels of silver, one of fifty taels of silver, one of twenty taels and one of ten taels of silver, and a total of ten taels of broken silver slots.
plus less than five taels of broken silver and copper coins in her purse, the total added up to less than two hundred taels.
In addition, it was the wooden crossbow and a dark iron knife on his waist - Uncle Han gave it to the original owner, and when he used the dark iron to build the gun for Chu Ge'er, he made it together and gave it to the good girl for self-defense.
As for Brother Chu'er's side, one bag is his own clothes, and the other bag is actually a few old cloth shirts from Master Wu, which is gone.
"You didn't bring any money?"
Brother Chu touched his waist, took off his purse and handed it to Han Mufei.
The money in the purse is only half a tael of silver, and twenty-six copper coins, which is estimated to be a small amount of money that is usually bought for snacks. Also, a seven-year-old child, where does he have any money in his hand?
Han Mufei packed the idea of silver and handed it back to Brother Chu.
"Sister, tomorrow we will take the silver to buy something delicious." Brother Chu was also hungry, but he knew that there was nothing he could do at the moment, so he licked his dry lips and said this to Han Mufei.
"Okay."
Speaking of tomorrow, Han Mufei was worried, I don't know if I can find Han Heheng or someone from other rooms, otherwise, relying on her and Brother Chu alone, where will she escape?
It is impossible to return to the capital, although she is not familiar with the things in the court, and Uncle Han and Master Han never tell her this, but they have been officials for many years and see the situation more thoroughly than her, since they have sent someone to ask the people from the Han Mansion to leave Beijing quickly, I am afraid that the capital will not be able to stay.
If they dare to go back, they will probably give away their heads.
If you don't go back to the capital, then go to Yuzhou, where the Han clan is located?
From here to Yuzhou, about 700 kilometers away, by footsteps, far away!
But if you don't go to Yuzhou, where can you go?
Han Mufei made up his mind that he would go to find someone first tomorrow, and it would be best to find someone, so he could follow him to the ancestral house of the Han family in Yuzhou.
It's also the best and safest.
If you can't find anyone, you have to find a way to successfully reach Yuzhou by yourself and the less than two hundred taels of silver.
The two sisters and brothers, who were hungry and tired, didn't want to talk at all, and after a while, Brother Chu fell asleep.
Han Mufei rested for a while, feeling much better in his mental state, thinking of tomorrow, he didn't sleep much, and he had to leave someone to keep vigil - this is the mountain, although when he opened the map, he saw that there were no people near the cave, but he also had to beware of wild beasts and animals.
While watching the fire, Han Mufei packed up the burden of the two of them, and after dividing the silver into four parts, he picked up Master Wu's clothes, and was stunned, and his eyes fell on the exposed skirt in the burden he had confiscated.
As the daughter of the Han family, the degree of food and clothing has always been the best, and the clothes brought out are also the most popular in the capital.
But now that he is out of the house, he has no half of the guards by his side, and it is easy to be right and wrong when he wears such luxurious clothes.
Her single aristocratic life, could it be that it is the end of today?
Han Mufei sighed deeply, reluctantly glanced at those neon clothes, forced himself to divert his gaze, and chose a set of Master Wu's clothes to compare with his body.
The clothes were too big, and she didn't have a needle and thread at hand, and she couldn't sew if she had a needle and thread, so she had to make do.
She changed out of the dirty dress on her body, put on a set of old clothes from Master Wu, the excessively long cuffs were cut and torn off with a knife, the trousers were tucked and tied, and the trouser legs were rolled up, which was barely enough to make up a set of Langjun clothes.
So on the second day, when the sky was bright, when Brother Chu was woken up, he saw Sister Ah wearing a coarse cloth shirt in a dark tone.
Han Mufei also untied the cloud sideburns and simply tied them up.
Usually I have been a noble girl for a long time, and I am wearing a ring and a variety of jewelry, but now after I take it off, I feel that it is light for a long time.
In order to make it easier to walk, Han Mufei also darkened his complexion with the fat powder he brought with him, and thickened and thickened his eyebrows, after all, it was convenient to show up in this kind of war, or pretend to be Langjun.
"Sister?"
"It's called Brother." Han Mufei corrected.
Brother Chu looked at his sister's face, which was really good-looking even if he pretended to be Langjun, and wanted to say that no one would believe it if he called his brother, but since Sister Ah let him change his words, then he just changed his words.
"Brother?"
"Good!"
"Then, brother, can we go buy food first?" Brother Chu asked, holding his hungry stomach.
As the concubine of the Han Mansion, he has never tried to find food like today, and the first time he starved was uncomfortable.
"No, let's go first."
Han Mufei also wanted to put more than a dozen kinds of exquisite dim sum on the Han Mansion like yesterday to be delicious and delicious, but the facts did not allow it.
Moreover, the most important thing for them at the moment is to catch up with Han Heheng or the rest of the Han family.
That's why she woke up Brother Chu as soon as possible and set off as soon as possible.
"Brother, aren't we going back?" Brother Chu was worried about his father and grandfather who didn't run away with them, "I don't know what happened to Daddy and Grandpa?" ”
"Not going back." Han Mufei shook his head.
The rebels who are in rebellion must have captured the palace, right? Since Uncle Han and Master Han met with the plane to let the relatives of the Han Mansion flee for their lives, they should also have a way to save their lives, right?
Although Han Mufei was also worried, he resolutely did not plan to turn back.
The people of the Han Mansion estimated that they all escaped before and after the city was broken yesterday, and even if she went back, she couldn't find anyone to help, so how could she fight the rebels alone?
If the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, the situation in the capital is unclear for a day, and she will not be able to go back for a day.
After packing their bags, the two of them carried all their belongings like yesterday and set off.
After walking from the mountains and forests for a long time, and walking out of the dense forest, Han Mufei was already physically exhausted.
In the end, it's not my body in the last days, my body is delicate and expensive, I walked so many ways yesterday to escape and hold on for a breath, I didn't rest last night, and today I walked around with injuries, I was hungry and thirsty, and I was naturally very tired.
When he came to the official road and reluctantly walked along the official road for a while, Han Mufei realized that he was still stupid.
If Han Heheng and the other Han family members also knew that the farther away from the capital the safer it was now, it was estimated that they would get up early and go on the road like her, and she and her younger brother would not have a carriage to travel, but they might have it!
How can two legs be compared to four legs?
So, maybe they left early in the morning, and if she wanted to catch up with them, it was just extravagant.
Han Mufei was not quite sure of his speculation, so he drove a coordinate positioning, within a radius of 100 meters, it was estimated that it was too early, and he couldn't see the active figures, and there was no crowd similar to the convoy, so he couldn't help but be disappointed.
"Sister and brother?" Because Han Mufei was in a bit of a hurry, Brother Chu, who was short legged, was panting with a spear.
Han Mufei temporarily gave up the idea of chasing after the Han family, and decided to wait until he could hire a carriage!
"Let's go, Brother Chu, let's find something to eat."
Brother Chu'er's eyes lit up.
Han Mufei took his younger brother into the dense forest again.
When the map was opened, the map showed that there was a stream not far away, and since they were hungry and thirsty, they had better find a water source first!
They soon found a stream, put down their bags and stopped.
Han Mufei and Brother Chu couldn't help but drop their bags and squatted down, taking a few sips with both hands, only then did they feel that their thirst had been quenched, but the hunger was becoming more and more obvious.
Han Mufei just pointed out that Chu Ge'er moved the stones together, built a simple stove, and found branches, and after making a fire, Han Mufei untied the pot, filled it with water from the stream, and put it on the stove to burn.
After asking Brother Chu to look at the fire, she walked downstream along the stream, found the waterhole formed by the stream's roundabout, squatted next to the waterhole and looked, and saw that there were many fish in it, so she looked around, broke a lot of dead branches on the side, and inserted a branch into the gap where the waterhole flowed down again.
Then she found a relatively hard wooden branch, took out a knife and sharpened the end, and when she saw the fish in the water swimming to the gap and jumping up except for a row of dead branches inserted into it, she threw it over, and in this way, she caught five or six palm-sized fish in a row, so she walked back upstream with the fish in the wooden branch.
Brother Chu was looking at the fire, the water in the pot had already boiled, and he happened to see Sister A come back and bring back a bunch of fish, and couldn't help but be surprised.
When did Sister learn to catch fish?
Han Mufei didn't have time to explain to him, and he didn't want to explain.
She put six fish on a flat stone, gutted them with a knife, and washed them in the stream.
Then he removed the iron pot that had boiled water, and then took out the long iron grid, put it on the stove, and put the cleaned fish on it one by one.
Soon, the fish on the grid was burned by the fire and gave off the smell of meat, and the fish oil was steaming, making the two people who hadn't eaten for a long time swallow their saliva.
Han Mufei quickly sharpened four slightly straight branches, used them as chopsticks, and flipped the fish over to the other side.
When the six fish are slightly yellowed on both sides, the campfire is extinguished and you are ready to eat.
Because it is freshly caught meat, the skin is crispy, the fish is sweet, although there is no salt, the two sisters and brothers who are too hungry also eat very deliciously, both of them ate three each, even if they used today's breakfast.
When they had finished eating and cleaned up, the morning sun also came out, and the sun shone down through the cracks between the trees, dispelling the morning mist.
"Brother Chu, you have to wash it well, this iron grid is not easy to come by." When he instructed Brother Chu to clean the barbecue grill, Han Mufei told him not to lose it.
The blacksmiths of the Dayan Dynasty had superb iron-striking skills, but it was not easy to smelt iron to make such an exquisite barbecue grid rack, and in order to create such an iron grid, Han Mufei used twenty-five taels of silver.
Fortunately, the Han family has money and silver, and at this time, she is also glad that it was ordered in time, otherwise, with the current situation in the Han Mansion, who would be willing to give her a huge amount of 25 taels of silver to build such a small thing and such a loser?
"Don't worry, sister, I still want to barbecue it again!" Brother Chu promised that he would go to the stream to wash and scrub.
Han Mufei saw that there was a bamboo on the other side of the stream, and planned to cut it down and make a water bladder.
They don't have a water bladder to store water around them, and if they want to go to Yuzhou, it is impossible to stop and boil water to drink every time when there is a shortage of water on the road, and it is impossible to be so lucky to find a water source every time, so when Han Mufei saw the bamboo, he had an idea.
Although she is not good at it, she can still make a rough bamboo tube.
Pick three thick and long bamboos that are easy to store water, choose the bamboo at both ends as the water pipe, leave the two bamboo joints as the bottom and do not cut them, and then cut them into three sections.
Polishing the end of the opening of the bamboo tube used for water storage, and thinning it from the outside to the inside, so that the opening will become slightly smaller than the original size, and then cut off the bamboo knots in the middle and put it on the opening of the bamboo tube, which can barely be used as a water bladder.
Fortunately, the Xuantie knife given by Uncle Han was very sharp, and Han Mufei did not seek beauty, but only practicality, and the two water cylinders were quickly ready.
Then put it in the stream water to clean it, filter it with boiling water, and then put the boiled water into it, cover it, and the drinking water problem on the road can be considered a temporary solution.
Han Mufei's next goal was to decide to go down the official road.
Han Mufei has never left Beijing, and it is useless to ask Brother Chu if he wants to come - the sons and girls of the Han family travel in carriages, plus he is still young, I am afraid that he does not know the environment outside the capital, and she does not have a map on hand, and she does not know where the next populated place is, whether it is a village or a town, so the best way is naturally to take the official road.
In addition, if you encounter pedestrians, whether it is a merchant or a person who escaped from the capital last night or today, I hope to find a kind person who can accompany you.
It would be nice to be able to ride the carriage by the way.
After all, walking to town on just two legs without transportation is too tough.
There are still convoys when the apocalyptic evacuation is carried out, and if you don't meet a convoy, you can still find abandoned cars in the city, and you can drive them as long as you get gasoline.
Now let Han Sanniang, who has never walked a few steps in brocade clothes and jade food, walk thousands of miles with so much softness and delicate body, it is an impossible task.
So the two of them got out of the jungle again and returned to the official road.
After eating and drinking, they recovered their spirits a little, and the two of them walked more easily than before, but after a while, they were still caught up by the group behind them.
Han Mufei's expectation was right, he really met a group of people driving the carriage.
Just looking at all of them are burly men, the eyes that look at them are obviously hostile.
"Uh, who are you?"