Chapter 002: Fat Sheep to be Slaughtered
Xifu touched the book in his arms, it had too many mysteries to solve, why did it identify me? Why did that silver-haired demon appear?
Xifu slapped himself, now is not the time to think about this, the first goal at the moment is to escape from Dazeguo.
Which country are she going to flee to? Originally, she only wanted to escape from the city, but now that she was outside the city, she had to decide which country to go to.
Things between countries, she listened to a lot of guests talk about it in the Goolan Courtyard, although it is said that the entertainment venue, don't talk about state affairs, but there are always young and vigorous people with national affairs, they always talk about it, she doesn't understand it after listening to it once or twice, and after listening to it a lot, she will naturally know a seven, seven, eight, eight.
She knows that she is in the west of Daze Country at the moment, and there are two countries closest to it, one is Dagui Country in the west, and the other is Yongzhen Country in the north.
It is relatively easy to get to Daguiguo in the west, and she only needs to walk along the branch of Daze Lake to the northwest, and according to her foot strength, it should take more than 20 hours to walk.
This is in terms of the ease of getting there, but there is another point to consider: which country is safer to go to?
From the point of view of security, it is obvious that Yongzhen is superior to Dagui, although Dagui and Daze are not too harmonious, and there are often some small fights on the border, but the people-to-people trade between the two countries has never been cut off, and there are many personnel exchanges between the two countries.
Because of the economic exchanges between Dagui and Daze, it must not be difficult for the people of the Qiwang Mansion to infiltrate the Dagui Kingdom, which is not conducive to her safety.
The Yongzhen State is different, it is not only separated from Daze by a Shrike Mountain, but also the nobles of the two countries should also deal with the issue of the right to mine silver in the Shrike Mountain, and-for-tat, the two countries often secretly mobilize the national army to protect the rights and interests of their own nobles.
Therefore, Yongzhen will never allow the Qi King of Daze to arrest people on his own territory. And she is a woman, and she is only a teenager, Yongzhen Kingdom will definitely not be guarded against her, and she will definitely be able to enter Yongzhen Kingdom at will.
Thinking of this, she made up her mind to cross the Shrike Mountain to Yongzhen Kingdom, although the package containing clothing and edible goods was lost in the reeds, but fortunately she hid all the gold leaves in her arms, and could go to the village in front of her to buy some food and supplies, for the purpose of climbing the mountain.
After thinking clearly about her next step, she immediately jumped off the big banyan tree, took out the bag of gold leaves from her arms, took one piece out of it and carried it with her, buried the rest under the tree, and then walked towards the village.
Seeing the wind is the rain, and the action is strong, and it is all about people like her.
It is a very large village, with hundreds of households, lined up on both sides of a small road, and there are not even small drainage canals that are common to discharge flash floods, so it can be seen that it is a poor and backward village that grew spontaneously.
In the border areas of many countries, there are often such small villages, where the villagers are often not oppressed by the court, and the miscellaneous taxes are very small, but correspondingly they will not be protected by the court army. But usually the villagers in these places are fierce and uninhibited because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the legal system is lax.
Xifu knew he had to be careful.
Walking into the village, I saw a few children playing on the side of the road from a distance, and when I got closer, I saw a few cute wild children, all about seven or eight years old, playing with mud with gray faces.
Seeing a stranger entering the village, an older girl ran over, and the old god asked her, "Sister, do you want to eat?"
"I'm a fisherman's girl from Daze Lake, and I'm looking for a place to eat", Xifu glanced at the little girl, her hair was unkempt, her little face was clean, and there was black fluff on her lips.
The mustache girl asked again, "Do you have any money?"
Xifu nodded, "Yes! The little girl's question would have been very uncomfortable, but because this is an eight or nine-year-old child, not only will it not be uncomfortable, but it will also make people feel quite interesting.
The girl with the moustache had a smile on her face, "Okay, follow me." As soon as he turned around, he led the way, and said some compliments such as "Little sister, you are so beautiful" and "Little sister, you can walk such a long way, it's amazing".
Xifu can't help but want to laugh, the poems say that "the children of the farmer are in charge early", according to her, it should be "the children of the merchant are in charge early", looking at this girl's young age, she is quite business-minded.
The little girl jumped up and down twenty steps, stopped in front of a low house, and said with a smile, "Little sister, this is it." I'll go tell my mother." As he spoke, he jumped into the house.
After about a moment, the little girl came out with a middle-aged woman with a hooked nose and hanging eyes, and she didn't look like an easy person to get along with.
The little girl generously introduced, "Little sister, this is my mother"; Niang, this is the young lady who asks for food."
Xifu's face is full of black lines, what is the young lady who wants to eat?
The middle-aged woman turned around and reprimanded her daughter, and then looked at Xifu with a smile:
This girl, although she is wearing fisherman's clothes, has a delicate and white face, and she doesn't look like a fisherman's girl.
"Girl, hurry up, get into the house, the country people, there are no good ingredients, and there is no shortage of fresh vegetables. There are only two people in the family, Juanzi and me, and there is no man", Juanzi is naturally the daughter of a middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman took Xifu's hand and led it to the house.
"Auntie, what do you call it?" "Who cares what your surname is, it's good that there is no man in the family, even if you show your wealth, I am not afraid that you will have bad intentions."
"My short-lived ghost surname is Zhao, the second in the clan, known as Zhao Er, you just call me Zhao Erniang, the little girl is so handsome and generous, what is it called?"
"Zhao Erniang, you call me Chunxiang", peasant women often use names like Chunxiang and Qiuxiang, which are the least likely to attract the attention of others, and they are necessary to run away.
"Erniang, I came here for my father, brother and uncle who were on the same boat, our boat sailed to this vicinity, and it was ashore, and they were inconvenient to get off the boat when there was something on the boat, so they asked me to come to the village to buy food, and there was also a son of a rich family in the city who also experienced the wild fun of fishing on the boat."
Speaking of rich sons, it is just to pave the way for gold leaves, otherwise a little girl from a fisherman family takes out a gold leaf, which is too easy to make people suspicious.
When Zhao Erniang heard this, her heart blossomed, thinking that she could make a big splash of bamboo bars now, and hurriedly asked the basic situation, how many people were there on the boat?
Xifu roughly compiled the number of people, and then emphasized that we people are going to stay on the river for three or two days, in addition to a few dishes at noon today, it is more important to prepare some non-perishable dry food, so we need ten green onion mille-feuille cakes and twenty oil buns, which are the favorites of these people.
Then the two agreed on the amount of money, and when Xifu said that the rich son gave her a gold leaf, Zhao Erniang didn't believe her ears, this is a fat sheep.
She was a little worried on her face, where could she find change for this gold leaf.
Xifu said, "Either way, this gold leaf will be stored here first, and we will come again in six or seven days, and then we will come back for a few more meals, and then exchange some broken silver, okay?"
Zhao Erniang smiled from ear to ear and told Xifu, "Little girl, the ingredients for such people are really not prepared at home, I will go to the village to borrow them first, and I estimate that it will not be ready until Shenshi, you have to be patient." ”
The approximate process and duration of making cakes, Xifu is clear, nodded at the moment, and just instructed Zhao Erniang to say, "Erniang, be sure to be fast, otherwise the people in the boat will be hungry for a long time, especially the temper of the rich son, be really irritable, go back late, so as not to be scolded." ”
Although Zhao Erniang looks difficult to get along with, she is really capable, washing rice, cooking rice, picking vegetables, washing vegetables, cooking pots, flour, and kneading dough...... , busy but not chaotic, very good at coordinating time, such as first and flour, put aside, wait for it to ferment, take advantage of this time to fry rice, the time of the two matters actually only occupies the time of one thing.
During this period, Juanzi was sent by Zhao Erniang to borrow something outside, but she never appeared.
It wasn't until noon that Juanzi ran into the door panting and shouted loudly at A-Niang: "A-Niang, there is no flour in the uncle's house." Then he ran away again.
At the beginning of Wei Shi, Zhao Erniang baked some cakes and fried a few side dishes, so that Xifu could eat them first.
"Farmhouse dishes, simple, Chunxiang girl makes do with eating, can't let you wait until Shen Shi hungry", Zhao Erniang smiled and served a good meal for Xifu.
Xifu took the meal, looked at the braised fish and shredded radish meat on the table, and asked Zhao Erniang and Juanzi to eat together, Zhao Erniangzi said, that little Nizi doesn't know where to go crazy, I just ate a piece of cake, and I am not hungry, the guests eat first.
Xifu quietly tried it in the rice with a silver needle, but the silver needle did not change color. She was no longer polite, moved her index finger, and devoured it.
In less than a moment, two bowls of rice were served, and the braised fish and shredded radish meat were also wiped out.
Xifu originally thought that after eating, he would help Zhao Erniang do it together to go up the mountain early.
Staying in this village, I felt a little uneasy, although it is not good to spend the night alone in the mountains, but relatively speaking, it is safer to hide in the mountains.
But after eating, she felt drowsy, maybe she had exercised too much today and was too nervous.
She told Zhao Erniang about her sleepiness and wanted to borrow her bed to rest.
Zhao Erniang was very enthusiastic, took Xifu to her room, and let her sleep peacefully, and when the meal was finished, she would naturally wake her up.
After a while, Zhao Erniang heard a snoring sound on the bed, which was comparable to that of a pot-bellied man, and she called softly twice, "Chunxiang girl, Chunxiang girl."
There was no response at all from Xifu, and he still slept soundly.
Zhao Erniang untied the apron around her waist, threw her hand on the table, and showed a grim smile on her face, in order to earn this fat sheep, she really worked hard. This girl is quite alert, and even used a silver needle to test the poison, but she didn't use a strong medicine, but it was a sleep-promoting medicine prescribed in the pharmacy, and this kind of medicine silver needle couldn't be tested, because it was not considered poison.
Now the fat sheep is finally done, she can breathe a sigh of relief for a while, and some sleep pills will not have a problem for her to sleep for four or five hours.