22 Chapter 22
In this convoy of darts, the first car to start was naturally the car of that He Gongzi.
The carriage is a horse-drawn carriage, the horses pulling the carriage are unremarkable, and the carriage is unpretentious and low-key.
He Youlang, the son of He who was sitting in the carriage, was also dressed in a low-key manner, dressed in a plain dress of light color, and his black hair was only loosely pulled up with a blue cloth belt, but his overly handsome face was a good jade appearance, Chu Chu was arrogant, and he was extravagant.
Waiting for the car to leave Gunzhou City, He Youlang suppressed his throat and coughed softly, raising his eyes and glancing at the little guy sitting on the opposite side.
"Jiu'an?"
"Yes, Lang Jun."
Jiu'an sighed, and the words began to gush: "The Song family who went on the road with Lang Jun is the master of Song, and the third son of his family, Song Sanlang, who is traveling with him, is married, and he is accompanied by his daughter-in-law, known as Song San's sister-in-law, who has a son and a daughter, and Song Gaoliang, the son of the second room, and Han Sanniang, the widow of the fourth room, and one of her stepsons, Song Huma. ”
Jiu'an finished introducing the people who followed the road outside in one breath, and saw He Youlang's brows frowning, and comforted: "Langjun, you can rest assured, we are very safe among them." ”
"I hope so." He Youlang's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, "This way, let Uncle Tian be more careful." ”
"You know, the slave will tell Uncle Tian to go." Jiu'an couldn't bear to get in the car, so after listening to this order, he twisted his body and slipped out of the car.
Over there, Han Mufei and the others were also guessing who He Langjun was who was with them all the way.
However, people have always said that they are sick in the carriage, and there is that Uncle Tian who has greeted them, and they are not embarrassed to disturb, only occasionally hearing a slight cough from the carriage, but people have never seen it with their own eyes.
There is a dart team to escort him, this time on the road, Han Mufei is much more comfortable, if it is not necessary, he does not show up outside, and stays comfortably in the donkey cart.
Song Laohan's family is too, knowing that the danger on the road has been reduced because of the presence of the dart master, and there are donkeys to carry goods, and their expressions and attitudes are very relaxed.
It's just that the capital city of Gunzhou is heading south, and there is still an endless stream of victims on the road.
The chaos around the capital spread to a large area to the east, and many of the displaced people they saw at this time were ordinary people fleeing the war and had to hurry to the more stable southern state capitals.
Therefore, there are many people like Han Mufei who are riding in donkey carts, and there are even more large families who are moving their families, and there are hundreds of guards alone, so they are not conspicuous in comparison.
Two hours later, the convoy stopped for a moment.
Han Mufei originally took a nap in the donkey cart, but he sat with a sore back, heard the laughter of Chu Ge'er and Maizi and others outside, lifted the curtain and walked off the donkey cart, stretched his waist, and was about to walk over, remembering something, he turned his head and put the bow bag on his back.
The convoy was resting on a wooded area, close to a water source, so there were many people parked in front of and behind.
There are those who drive horse-drawn carts and donkey carts, and there are those who are on foot, all of them are sitting around, chatting with each other, boiling water and cooking, with different expressions.
Song's third sister-in-law and Song's mother-in-law took out the stove and pot to boil water.
When I set off today, Song San's sister-in-law and Mrs. Song got up early in the morning and baked a lot of bud grain cakes, and now they boiled water, took a bowl, and tore up the cakes and threw them into the bowl to make the batter soup, which can be simple to satisfy the stomach.
In addition to this multigrain cake, they also made wowotou mixed with red dates and wheat, and after drying, it was hard and firm.
Han Mufei picked it up and looked at it, this kind of nest head, when dry food can withstand hunger, and when necessary, it can be used as a brick to beat people, one thing can be used for two purposes, and it is also absolutely amazing.
Then when it was Han Mufei's turn to prepare dry food for himself and Brother Chu, he took pork meat as jerky, cut the meat into pieces, sprinkled salt and marinated it, roasted it with fire, and put it in the sun to dry it, which was a simple piece of dried meat.
Although I didn't have a lot of preparations, I also bought some rice and coarse grains, and cooking on the road was troublesome, but now that I have hired a dart team, it is estimated that it can be easier than before, and the rest can be replenished at any time when I encounter a town or village.
When you really don't have anything to eat, you can go to the forest to hunt game.
Song San's sister-in-law couldn't help but worry when she found out, and she learned from Song Sanlang's mouth that she had given money and silver to her own Langjun to buy supplies, so she also prepared the dry food for their sister and brother by the way.
Therefore, the batter soup is so hard that it can smash people's nests, and she and Brother Chu also have it.
The third sister-in-law of Song was afraid that they would not be used to eating it, so she added some herbs found on the spot, washed and torn them up and added them to the batter soup, and sprinkled some fried beans.
Han Mufei tasted it, not to mention, it was very fresh, it was a bit similar to the taste of eating that biangbiang noodles.
Brother Chu is not as particular as his own sister, following Song Sorghum, he eats whatever Song Sorghum eats, a bowl of batter soup is eaten up for him, and then follows Song Sorghum to the side of the forest to play.
When Han Mufei sat aside with a bowl and slowly snorted the noodle soup, the people in the carriage behind also moved, Han Mufei and Song Laohan's family subconsciously looked over, only to see the entourage named Jiu'an come out to ask Uncle Tian for hot water, and then went back to the carriage.
"Then why is He Gongzi so sick?" Song Saburo couldn't help but ask.
"Hey, why do you care so much? If you're sick, don't let you find a doctor and spend money. Song Laohan glanced at his three sons.
"Hey, they're all the way, I care about it, Daddy." Although Song Saburo is said to be the father of two children, he may be the third son in the family, and he has always been protected by the eldest brothers in the family a lot, and his temperament occasionally jumps out of his temper.
When the two pillars chattered, passers-by came to greet and inquire about their itinerary.
At this time, Han Mufei was silent, and when those people saw them, they also thought that Song Laohan and Song Sanlang were in charge, and they would not deliberately ask Han Mufei, unless it was some women and ladies who came up to ask for saliva and drink, they would ask a few words.
In this way, after five or six days of hurried by, he moved away from the city of Gunzhou and the surrounding small towns and villages, and gradually entered the foothill forest area.
At this time, there are people like them, but they will not be the same as before, back and forth, and the difference in foot distance will be evident at this time.
Those who walk on foot are the slowest and fall last, and those with ox carts and donkey carts will go faster than those on foot, and the fastest ones are naturally those who ride in horse-drawn carts.
Although Han Mufei and his convoy had a carriage, the carriage was filled with patients, so they walked slowly.
When they stopped to rest as usual on this day, there was no one on the edge of the forest, only Han Mufei and their convoy.
Because the journey was relatively smooth, everyone was not too nervous and stopped one after another.
After so many days of getting along, everyone now knows a little bit about the five dart masters of the bodyguards.
The leader is Xiao Dazhuang, it is said that he was originally a powerful martial arts master, and then the martial arts hall was found to be unable to open, and the master of the kamikaze dart bureau saw the hero, so he hired Xiao Dazhuang into the dart game.
Because of his courage and resourcefulness, this Xiao Dazhuang became the leader of the dart team as soon as he entered the dart game, and he worked for six years.
Xiao Dazhuang also has no family, making money is to eat, drink and have fun, Song Laohan asked him why he didn't have a family, Xiao Dazhuang only said that he was in the line of doing dart games, and he lived a life of licking blood from the knife edge, and it was always easy to have accidents.
In addition, the dart masters who are familiar with Xiao Dazhuang, one is called Shi Dacheng, and the other is called He Shouyi, who are also bachelors.
Shi Dacheng was born in the army, after being seriously injured, he took off his armor and retired, and after recovering from his injury, he looked for a job and entered the dart game, He Shouyi is the head of the family, and he can't eat, he happens to have brute strength, so he was thrown to the dart bureau to learn art, but he grew up in the dart bureau since he was a child, and he is a kamikaze dart bureau backbone.
The other two are new dart masters, because the dart board is short of manpower to give new moves, although they are silent, but they work neatly.
That Xiao Dazhuang and Shi Dacheng and He Shouyi have all walked darts together before, so they are more familiar, and these two dart masters are said to be cousins, both surnamed Zhang, one is called Zhang Nan, and the other is called Zhang Song.
Song Laohan's family is very easy-going, although this dart team was hired by Han Mufei, but they are very grateful to the dart masters of the dart team, and they may not be able to take care of them in terms of food, but whenever they boil water, they will also be boiled, and they will be put into water bladders after cooling.
It was Han Mufei's idea to drink the boiled water.
There are really no conditions outside, so naturally you can only drink raw water, but no matter how sweet the spring water is, it is not good to drink too much, as a civilized person who came from the end of the world, Han Mufei insisted that everyone drink boiled water.
Song Laohan listened to the extraordinary Han girl talk about the benefits of drinking boiled water, so he asked the family to do so, and took care of the people in the dart team by the way, as for the three of them in the group of He Gongzi, except for Uncle Tian who occasionally came to deal with them, that He Gongzi himself and that Jiu'an, everyone couldn't talk to them at all.
While they were boiling water and drinking, an oncoming donkey cart slowly stopped, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Lang Jun jumped out of the cart, supporting an old man about the same age as Song Laohan, but he was blind and his legs were still trembling.
Seeing them, Lang Jun smiled embarrassedly: "Hello masters, our name is Li Zixian, our home is in Mengcun in front of us, I don't know what you call them?" ”
"Let's call Uncle Xiao." Every time Xiao Dazhuang saw someone who came to talk, unless it was the girl's family and the woman who came to find Song San's sister-in-law or Han Mufei, he would go to meet first and ask about the situation.
"There's a village ahead? Called Mengcun? ”
"Hey, just more than 20 kilometers ahead, is our village, not big, there are only dozens of people, we are going to my sister's house in Pei County with Grandpa, what about you? Somewhere else? ”
"No, let's go to Yuzhou Mansion next door." Xiao Dazhuang didn't want to say much, and chatted with Li Zixian, mostly asking, and answered that Li Zixian had few words.
Then Li Zi couldn't bear it after saying two sentences first: "Uncle Xiao, we saw that you were boiling water, and wanted to ask for hot water for my grandfather to drink, you see?" ”
"Hey, okay, no problem, I'll ask someone to bring it to you, do you have a water bladder?" Xiao Dazhuang didn't let Li Zi help the old man over first, and asked directly.
"Yes, yes." Li Zixian sneered and handed the bamboo tube to Xiao Dazhuang, when Xiao Dazhuang turned around and asked Shi Dacheng to come over to help fetch water, he quickly glanced at the convoy, looked around, and when Xiao Dazhuang turned around, he was full of smiles.
Xiao Dazhuang didn't notice the abnormality, and handed the bamboo tube filled with water back to Li Zi, who thanked him first, carefully fed Grandpa Li two mouthfuls of water, and rested for a while, and then helped him to get into the donkey cart, and then slowly drove the donkey cart to continue in the opposite direction.
Xiao Dazhuang watched the donkey cart gallop away from the road, and then walked up to everyone, laughed and chatted, and after letting everyone rest for a while, he continued to hurry.
After walking forward for about two hours, the sky gradually darkened, looking at the desolate mountains and rocks around him, and after walking for a while, he saw the shadowy lights in front of him, Xiao Dazhuang remembered that he had met Li Zixian before, as if he had said, there is a village near here, called Mengcun?
After driving for a few days in a row, everyone stayed outside, didn't sleep a few well, Xiao Dazhuang and Song Laohan announced to Uncle Tian, and immediately decided to go into the village to spend the night, rest for the time being, and continue to hurry tomorrow.