Chapter 86, people's hearts change, and they cross the ocean

He knew in his heart that Guo Jing and Huang Rong were actually able to break through. It's just that they can't leave behind their followers and break through on their own. In addition, Xiangyang can't hold it, and they don't want to live.

After staying away from Xiangyang, he bought paper candles and worshiped Guo Jing and the others, and the two rushed east.

There were Mongolian soldiers all the way, and after thinking about it, I didn't want to go home, and went directly to Huating to go to sea.

When they arrived at the port, it was not busy, the two found the ship, and when they asked, they learned that the news of the Mongol attack on Xiangyang had already spread, and many people fled south, and there were few people in the port.

"Master Li, if we hadn't had to wait for you, we would have already left. The captain laughed, "Now that you are here, then we will set sail at once." ”

The boat followed the Wusong River to the mouth of the sea, and turned to the south, "Okay, now it's safe." The people on board breathed a sigh of relief. They had been worried that the Mongol army would come down the Yangtze River to block the access to the sea, or that the panicked Song army would grab the ships and escape.

When the ship arrived at Yizhou Island, the people on board cheered. The Central Plains is in turmoil, and it's great that they can hide on this safe island.

Li Shucheng and the others were also very happy, although they could avoid the Mongol army by finding a remote place in the Central Plains at random, but they had to go out to buy salt and cloth, right? They didn't want to see the Mongols oppressing the people, so it was better to leave.

As far as the eye can see, this place can no longer be called a town, it has developed into a city. Once in town, head straight to the center, where their houses are located.

Entering from the courtyard gate, there are a lot of weeds growing in the flower beds in the courtyard, and there are fallen leaves in a few corners, which seem to be blown by the wind.

Walk through the yard and push open the gate, where a layer of dust has fallen.

"It seems that they don't welcome us here. Li Shucheng said. Before Li Shucheng and their ship, there was another ship back, and they must have known what had happened in the Central Plains, and they also knew that the two of them would come over immediately. If they had the heart, they would definitely call a few people to clean up. But the dust in front of me has not been cleaned for at least a few months.

"People's hearts always change. What's more, the old one is over eighty years old, and he may not still be alive. Jiang Mingyue said.

"Anyway, it's good to be a good person, what's the point of giving a dismount like this? Are you still afraid that I won't be able to rob them of their territory?" Li Shucheng said.

As he was talking, a group of people came in, and a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties who walked in front said, "Are you the descendants of Master Li? I am Zhang Bolin, my late father Zhang Chu. Brother Liu and I heard that you were coming, and we specially set up a banquet in the Drunken Building to catch you up. ”

"We don't need to catch the wind, we still have to clean the house. Li Shucheng shook his head and said.

"Oh, I've been so busy lately that I've forgotten about it. Why don't I tell a few of my subordinates to come and help?" said Zhang Bolin.

"No, we'll do it ourselves. Li Shucheng said.

"Okay, if you need anything, then notify the General's Mansion, and the people below will help you do it. Then I won't bother you. Zhang Bolin said, turned and walked out.

"I didn't expect that Zhang Chu would raise such a son. After Zhang Bolin left with people, Li Shucheng sighed.

"Although it was our idea to come here and we paid the first money, they have always been in charge. We haven't been here for decades, so it's no wonder they have such thoughts. Jiang Mingyue said.

"Now that it's like this, what's the point of living here. Li Shucheng said, "I think we'd better go." "People's hearts have changed, even if they stay here, they won't be happy, why stay here to punish themselves? Therefore, at this moment, what Li Shucheng thought of was to leave here.

"Okay, you can go wherever you say. Jiang Mingyue said. She was equally reluctant to stay here and look at other people's faces.

Li Shucheng went to open the secret room and take a look, and the silver that was placed here was still lying here quietly. There are more than 10,000 taels of silver, which is enough for Li Shucheng to buy a small ship.

Now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, these ships are temporarily useless, and some people are willing to sell them. Li Shucheng successfully bought a medium-sized ship, and then replenished fresh water, light wine, grain and vegetables, and so on.

The ship left the port and slowly drove downstream, Li Shucheng saw Zhang Bolin looking this way on the city tower not far away, and was about to tell Jiang Mingyue, but turned his head and found that Jiang Mingyue also saw Zhang Bolin. He must have been very proud of himself now. Li Shucheng shook his head and said.

"He won't be happy for long. Jiang Mingyue said calmly.

"Why?" asked Li Shucheng curiously.

"Because it's a little too big. Jiang Mingyue said, "How many people are there here now? I estimate that there are no less than forty or fifty thousand people." When there are more people, it is easy to leak information. I'm sure many people on Fujian Road know about it. The Mongol army went south, and it was only a matter of time to attack here. ”

Yes, there are a lot of people, especially those who come from Fujian Road, they can go back and forth between the two sides of the strait with fishing boats, how can the news not spread? The other side must have heard that this place is rich, so the Mongol army may not find this place.

"Whatever, this place has nothing to do with us now. Li Shucheng said. When it is time to be ruthless, you have to be ruthless, the Mongols are coming, if they don't want to die, they can surrender, or they can flee into the mountains. Li Shucheng is not a nanny, how can he manage so much.

When the ship came to sea, Jiang Mingyue asked Li Shucheng: "Go south or go north?"

Li Shucheng thought for a while and took out a copper coin and said, "It's almost the same whether you go south or north, just throw the copper coin and decide." The front side goes to the north, and the back side goes south. After speaking, he threw it casually, stretched out his palm, and concealed it just fell in the palm of his hand.

Li Shucheng looked at it and said, "Front, let's go north." ”

After crossing the Zhoushan Islands to the north and crossing the mouth of the Yangtze River, Jiang Mingyue asked: "Further north is Dengzhou, where are we going?

"Continue north to see the scenery further north. In the northernmost part there is a species of bear, which is snow-white. Let's take a look, and maybe get two bearskins. Li Shucheng said, "Anyway, with my fishing skills, as long as I am at sea, I will not starve to death wherever I go." During this time, while sailing, Li Shucheng was fishing from the sea, and the grain stored on the ship was not used much. And the white bear skin, the entire Central Plains is afraid that no one has ever seen it.

Goryeo was already a Mongolian vassal at this time, and in order to ensure that the ship did not dock in Goryeo, Li Shucheng went ashore to replenish a batch of wine and beans and continued to set off. Why not replenish fresh water? Fresh water will stink after a long storage time, and only wine can be stored for a long time. Beans, on the other hand, are used to sprout beans to supplement vitamins, otherwise they are prone to sepsis. Moreover, Li Shucheng heard a friend say in his last life, "If you don't eat green for three days, your eyes will be full of gold stars". Although it is an exaggeration, it also shows the importance of eating vegetables.

A little further north, it was getting colder and snowier. However, this cold has no effect on Li Shucheng and the two of them, thinking that when the two of them were enjoying the snow in Kunlun Mountain, the temperature was even lower than this, and they were still wearing single clothes.

But after a few more days, the ship could no longer move forward because the sea was frozen.

Li Shucheng carved a waterway with a long sword and dragged the boat to the shore.

While hunting in the woods, the two found a village. It is said that the villages are all lifted, but in fact they are just some shacks. Li Shucheng compared, this should be the Russian Far East in the future, and the Bering Strait should be not far away, and these people should be Inuit.

The two sides did not understand the language, and the two quietly retreated, and only hunted a reindeer back to the boat when they were far away.

The ship is parked here, and it will be discovered after all. A few days later, while the Inuit were hunting, they chased their prey here.

Li Shucheng heard the movement outside and came out to take a look, a dozen or so people in animal skins were chasing prey with weapons, and when they saw the boats on the ice and snow, they stopped and pointed and said. Li Shucheng raised his hand, and three copper coins shot out and nailed deep into the prey's head, and the prey continued to run a few steps due to inertia, and fell to the ground.

Li Shucheng's hand shocked the Inuit opposite, kneeling down one by one and bowing non-stop. They didn't see the copper coin shot by Li Shucheng clearly, but as soon as Li Shucheng raised his hand, the three prey fell, this is simply a fairy method! And Li Shucheng was wearing a beautiful silk dress that they had never seen before, how could a god have such a beautiful dress if he wasn't a god?

In this way, Li Shucheng did not have a conflict with them, but was invited to enter the Inuit village.

After that, the two stayed in peace, helping the Inuit from time to time, and learning the Inuit language with them. When the snow melted in the sea, all the Inuit in the village came to see them off, because they had helped them so much. For example, to improve hunting tools, such as to treat sick people, such as using seawater to boil salt, which they did not have before, and to replenish salt was to drink animal blood.

However, Li Shucheng has no way to solve the problem of them eating raw meat, they eat raw meat for vitamins. The winter here is too long, and it is not possible to supplement vitamins without vegetables and fruits, so they can only eat raw meat regularly.

After two days of north-east travel along the coast, through the Bering Strait, we set foot on another continent.

Here, the two still met the Inuit, and although the two sides were cut off by the Bering Strait, the language was still almost identical, and it was easy for Li Shucheng to get in touch with the local Inuit.

After shooting a few prey in front of the Inuit with a few copper coins, Li Shucheng received the same courtesy, and then learned about the situation in the vicinity from the Inuit, and he came here to look around.

Before, he just wanted to come to the North Pole to see the polar bears, but then he remembered that there are crops such as corn and sweet potatoes in the Americas, so he came here.