31 Snow and Black Carriage
The old man Qingzhu nodded and woke up, "Yes...... When did you start encountering fog? By the way, when we were halfway through, we walked about 30 miles of official road, and suddenly the fog began, just like ...... Like the fog in the daytime today, it came silently and without warning...... My father drove by the light of the torches, and when he looked ahead with wide eyes, he could only see a few feet away, and with a stream of falling snowflakes, our carriage could not move forward at all. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Seeing this, there was no store in front of the village and no store in the back, and the two brothers driving in front of him had no idea. My father and we had a little sum up, and if we turned around and went back, it would take several hours to travel, and even if we could go home smoothly, we would still not be able to open the pot, so it was naturally not feasible to turn back...... But if you stay where you are, in this kind of ghost weather, everyone will be hungry again, and they will sit still and wait to die...... So after discussing it, we still chose to continue on the road, only hoping that God would have eyes and the mountain god would appear...... So that this ghost fog and heavy snow can stop as soon as possible. ”
"My two elder brothers, after all, were young, and my father's carriage led the way, and I sat beside him with a torch to light it, while my sister took a torch and sat alone behind the trunk of the carriage, so that my two brothers could follow the light of the torches...... I distinctly remember that the fog was so thick that I tried my best to shake the torch in my hand, but I couldn't even see the horse pulling the cart in front of me, and I could only vaguely see the mane hanging from the horse's neck. And the father did not dare to be careless, and whispered to the driving horse to move forward slowly, but his two hands clung to the reins, for fear that he would not have time to stop in case of some sudden accident. ”
"So our two carriages walked slowly in the fog and snow, and it was strange to say that the fog in front of us was not quite the same as the fog in the mountains in the past, not covered in one piece, but distributed in all directions...... Our carriage had not been in the fog for long before it had passed through the fog, and it became clear in front of us, and at first we thought it was fogging, and we hurried a little faster, but we broke into another fog again...... And then one after another, endlessly...... We drove the carriage like this for more than an hour, and we only walked a few miles......"
Speaking of this, the old man Qingzhu seemed to be talking too much, gasping and coughing a few times, reaching out and groping in his arms for a long time, and finally slowly took out a dry tobacco. This move suddenly startled Xie Yixiang, and she hurriedly concentrated slightly, only then did she calm down and secretly laugh at her heart. Seeing that the old man Qingzhu lit the dry tobacco with a fire fold, he took two deep breaths, and did not continue for a while, Xie Yixiang heard that he never mentioned the point, and became more and more sullen when he heard it, and couldn't help but interject and ask, "What happened later?"
The old man of Qingzhu spat out a puff of green smoke, flew out of the sky, and said leisurely: "Later...... Later, my stomach was so hungry that I couldn't hold back my hunger anymore, so I had to learn from my father to grab a few clumps of snow and stuff them into his mouth and swallow them forcibly. Who knew that when the snow water entered the stomach, not only did I feel empty in my stomach, but there was also a biting cold all over my body, as if I had fallen into an ice cave naked...... At that time, I thought, I was afraid that in a little more time, if not starvation, I would freeze to death on the carriage...... But at that moment, my father next to me suddenly let out an exclamation, and I looked in the direction he was pointing, and a spark appeared in front of me. ”
Xie Yixiang knew that the next step was the key, and she couldn't help but cheer up. The old man Qingzhu continued: "My father and I first thought that it was someone who was rushing overnight like us...... We must know how warm our hearts are to meet people on the same road in such a foggy, snowy and cold night? My father was about to catch up with the carriage, but fortunately the fog was distributed one by one, and we took advantage of the air attack between the two fogs, and my father rode his horse to chase after him, but it was only a meal before he caught up with the fire in front...... Looking at the outline outlined by the firelight, there was actually a carriage in front of it, slightly covered with a layer of ice and snow, but it was painted a deep black color from beginning to end. ”
So the father shouted and greeted the carriage in front of him. But no one answered in the carriage, and it continued to move forward in the fog...... When my father saw that he was bored, he didn't think so. You must know that driving overnight in such foggy and snowy weather is extremely dangerous, and now when you encounter the black carriage in front of you, it is equivalent to a companion who voluntarily leads the way, and my father suddenly breathed a sigh of relief...... So we drove after the black carriage, while the carriage of our two brothers was still behind us. ”
"This time everyone is much more relieved, originally driving in the fog, the most terrible thing is that you never know what is in front of you...... Originally, a small landslide, or the corner of the official road on the edge of the cliff, if you see it from afar, you will naturally be prepared, easily avoid the danger, and park in place at the worst...... But in the fog it's different, because no matter how small a danger is, by the time you can see it, you don't have time to react...... So with such a black carriage ahead of us, we only have to follow his rut marks and walk the path it has taken, and we can eliminate all those unknown dangers......"
Unexpectedly, this old man Qingzhu, who is known as the world's number one master, is really no different from an ordinary old man when he speaks, he is simply verbose to the extreme, and now he is talking and talking, and he is pulling things away. Xie Yixiang had to cough lightly, and the old man Qingzhu seemed to understand what she meant, grinned, and said, "At that time, we were following behind that black carriage, and we were as anxious as you are now...... As I said before, the official road of Changbai Mountain is already deserted, and the fog generated in the heavy snow is scattered on the road one by one...... However, the black carriage was very strange, whether it was in the fog or outside the fog, it had always maintained the same speed, and it was not slow to say that it was slow, and it was impossible to say that it was fast, and it made us anxious. In addition, we were already so hungry that our chests were pressed against our backs, and the large snowflakes were blown down on our faces, which made people panic again and again...... If it hadn't been for the fact that there would be fog ahead, and that the carriage would have struggled in the fog, my father would have overtaken him and left the black carriage behind. ”
So we marched slowly for another half hour, when our carriage had just come out of a fog when we heard the sound of horses' hoofs beside it...... But the two brothers who followed behind finally couldn't hold it back, and took advantage of the clear vision of this moment, and immediately whipped their horses, and went straight to our carriage and the black carriage in front of them, and ran far ahead...... When my father saw this, he had no choice but to shout at the horse that was pulling the cart, and speed up to overtake the black carriage, and go after the cart of his brothers......"
Hearing the old man Qingzhu say this, Xie Yixiang couldn't bear it anymore, and couldn't help but interject: "Senior, you said that you once encountered a situation similar to the fog in the daytime, and what kind of situation did you say? What did you encounter at that time?"