Volume II: On the March 94. Unexpected
Sima Wenzhi and Ling Shuang slowly sneaked away, and after half an hour, they began to cast spells, turning slow walking into fast walking.
At this time, the distance from the woods was already several miles away, beyond the scope of the late-stage cultivators of the Ghost Immortal Realm, and the two of them no longer worried about being detected by the masked man.
While traveling along the way, the two were also thinking about where to go.
Although the county seat of Chengdu County is not large, it is also nearly ten miles in radius. In recent years, there have been people from the north who have fled south, fled here, built thatched huts in the outer city in turn, and expanded the city. The two of them have no idea where they want to go.
But the Chengdu county government and the prison cell can no longer go.
Xuan Feng was noticed shortly after entering the forest, and the two of them didn't know why. If the county magistrate Liu Jie had already colluded with Xuan Jing, going to these two places at this time would be no different from throwing himself into the net.
After daybreak, the two entered the city gate and walked on the path. I haven't gone far yet, and I have made a decision about where to go.
Go to the city restaurants.
After a night of hard work and fright, Ling Shuang's stomach was reminding again.
After Liu Song unified the southern part of China, although the life of the people of Yizhou has been difficult in recent years, it has also improved. Even so, there are not many restaurants in the city, and most of the customers on weekdays are wealthy. The poor have no food, no heart, and no silver pastime.
Most of the restaurants were on the main road, but the duo immediately changed their routes, and the side road became the main road. Shortly after dawn, the big eateries have not yet opened, and there are only small roadside stalls serving wheat cakes. Ling Shuang was hungry in her stomach, so she didn't ask the price, and took one and chewed it directly.
The large and small restaurants in Chengdu County used to eat first and then give money. However, in the past few years, the world has been difficult, and there are many gangsters who cheat and cheat and drink and the poor who have no way out.
Therefore, seeing Ling Shuang start chewing, the stall owner hurriedly asked her for money.
Ling Shuang didn't have any money on him, so he pretended to be a wheat cake to block his tongue, and he was vague, and stretched out his hand to ask Sima about it.
Sima Wenzhi had no money on him, and looked back at Ling Shuang. Seeing that she ignored it, he sighed secretly.
Before approaching the stall, he had expected that one of the two would be evildoers, and most of them would be himself.
Pretending to take money from his arms, Sima Wenzhi took the opportunity to cast a spell and took out the silver beans prepared in advance in his hand. Silver beans are stone transformations, and turning stones into gold and silver is one of the twenty-four changes in the upper Qing Dynasty.
The stall owner was embarrassed.
He didn't have enough change on him to make change. I want to use all the wheat cakes on the stall as change, but I am afraid that the two people in front of me will not allow it.
"No need to look for it. ”
When the stall owner was entangled, Sima asked to explain. After finishing speaking, he pulled Ling Shuang and walked away quickly, leaving only the stall owner standing in place in ecstasy.
But ecstasy eventually turns to disappointment.
Turning stones into gold is not permanent, after a right time, the silver grains will turn back into stones, which is why Sima asked not to make change.
After the hunger in their stomachs was gone, the two of them went into the path again, found a remote place, and began to conceive and nourish their minds.
At the same time, the two are also making decisions.
Xuanfeng only told the two to escape, but did not tell where to go, let alone whether he would return to find the two. Whether to continue waiting in the city or venture back to the mountains is a matter of deliberation.
Since going down the mountain, he was first troubled by the people in the village for no reason, and then he was imprisoned by the Chengdu county order, and then he fell into an embarrassment with nowhere to go. After Ling Shuang regained her strength, she was full of slander, and she opened her mouth to complain.
Sima Wenzhi also felt that the trip was very difficult, but he did not complain. After Xuan Feng left, the biggest obstacle he wanted to leave alone had been removed, and the rest of the obstacles were only to send Ling Shuang to a safe place.
The most familiar place for the two in the city is the Chengdu County Ya, and they suspected that the county commander Liu Jie and Xuan Jing had already colluded, so they did not go. At this moment, Sima Wenzhi thought of something, and he wanted to verify it.
"You stay here and don't wander around, I'll come back when I go. After thinking about it, he immediately took action, and instructed Ling Shuang before leaving.
Walking out of the small road, Sima Wenzhi went straight to the main road in the city. If Liu Jie colludes with Xuan Jing, there will be officials and troops searching for them in the city at this time.
After walking a few streets, the scene was no different from before. At this time, it was almost dawn, and people came and went in the streets, and there were more pedestrians.
Sima Wenzhi immediately returned, called Ling Shuang, and said his decision, and then the two walked towards the Chengdu County Ya.
Before they were halfway there, the people in the street began to walk towards the same place. There are lively things happening in the city every day, and most of them are new things, which attract everyone to see the excitement.
"Let's go, little master, if we are idle, let's go and see. Ling Shuang likes to be lively, and she doesn't care about the situation of the two of them at this time, so she opened her mouth to encourage her.
Sima asked that he had no intention of going, and there was no reason to refuse. It was his decision to go to the county office, and he couldn't stop Ling Shuang from going wherever he went.
The two walked with the crowd, and soon came to the place where the onlookers were watching. Looking in through the crowd, Sima asked him to know what was going on. He heard such a thing from Master Yu, and it was a righteous daughter who sold herself to save her father.
This incident is deeply moving, but it is very cliché, and it often happens in years of war and famine.
From Jiankang to Yizhou, he had seen many times along the way. It can be seen that although there are a few years of recuperation, the life of the ordinary people is not much better.
In the center of the crowd, a woman knelt behind a piece of complaint paper, bowing her head and saying nothing. The complaint paper said what happened to her, and her sick father was in danger and needed silver and two bailouts. Those who are willing to help, women are willing to commit themselves to slavery.
After everyone saw it, most of them were moved.
After committing to slavery, if there is no one to redeem him, he will be enslaved for generations. In exchange for silver taels, the woman was cornered.
After experiencing tragedy, others will help more or less. The woman's complaint is written in line characters, and it is written in one go, and the skills are profound, which is not for women.
At this time, there are not many rich women who can read and hyphenate words, let alone the woman in front of her, and the complaint is written by someone else.
Someone in the crowd began to throw copper coins in twos and threes.
The onlookers are not rich, and they have reached the limit after 100 pieces. The woman didn't pick it up, and the coins didn't have much use.
After taking in the scene in front of him, Ling Shuang looked at Sima and asked him, and glanced at his envoy. Sima Zhi knew what she meant, but still shook his head.
Ling Shuang motioned to Sima Wenzhi to turn stones into gold again to solve the woman's urgent need. Sima Wenzhi shook his head in response, indicating that he did not agree.
The gold and silver made by spells can only last for one time. Whether this woman uses it or not, she will be in trouble one day later.
And he didn't care about it.
He has seen this kind of thing many times, Taoist cultivation is against the heavens to change their lives, but most mortals in the world are destined to be destined, and forcibly changing the things that have been determined will give birth to more incidents.
While the two were arguing, there was a commotion not far from the crowd, and a group of people were rushing here.
"Childe, there it is. When one of them saw the crowd watching, he shouted loudly behind him.