Chapter 5 The Long Road is Silent
The rooster sings, and the sky is dark.
After practicing the knife, Jiang Lili, who had just finished taking a bath, packed up her luggage, stood in front of Cheng Ruyi's door and shouted a few times, but never heard a response, so she directly kicked open the door and dragged the sleeping Cheng Ru out of the quilt directly.
Cheng Ru looked stunned at first, then looked at the sky to stop vomiting and complained loudly, "You are sick! ”
Jiang Lili was not used to Cheng Ruyi, and when Cheng Rushi crawled back into the quilt, he walked over directly with a basin of water.
Cheng Ru hadn't fallen asleep yet, she was still thinking about how Jiang Lili was so good at talking at this time, and when she opened her eyes and saw Jiang Lili bring a basin of water, she immediately woke up, so she persuaded Jiang Lili to pour water, and hurriedly put on her clothes.
The little two in the inn got up early and hurriedly brought hot water for Cheng Ru to wash. However, looking at the slightly dark circles under his eyes, you can know that he was actually woken up by the sound of Jiang Lili practicing his knife.
After paying for the accommodation along with the food money, Jiang Lili took two large meat buns and nibbled on them while walking towards the nearest stables on the street.
Cheng Ru staggered behind Jiang Lili, nibbling on the steamed bun without a bite, still wondering in his heart, and muttered nonsense: "This innkeeper is also a little stingy, I bite a meat bun so much that I still don't see the meat, and he is a profiteer!!"
Originally, he hadn't slept a peaceful sleep when he was on the boat, but at this time, he finally wanted to make up for the sleep he hadn't slept before, but Jiang Lili woke him up from his sleep, and he was still stunned at this time.
Because the horses need to be taken care of, the owner of the horse shed got up very early, and was sorting out the grass for the horses at this time, and saw Jiang Lili and Cheng Ru coming over one after the other, so he hurriedly greeted him, "My lord, do you need horses?"
Jiang Lili swallowed the last bite of the bun into her mouth, "I want a carriage." ”
"Carriage? ”
It didn't take long for the owner of the stables to come over with a small carriage, "Look, guest officer, is this the right size?"
Jiang Lili nodded, and after the two negotiated the price, they were about to ask Cheng Ru to drive, but seeing Cheng Ru's sleepy appearance, Jiang Lili stopped this thought.
Horse-drawn carriages weren't cheap, and he didn't want to scrap them in a ditch before they were on the road!
Although the sun is only out of the mountains at this time, the Southern Dynasty is much warmer than the Great Sui, so the morning breeze blowing does not feel cold, but feels a little cool.
South Korea is a little far away from Beiming, and there is still a Houliang country to pass through on the way, and it is impossible to get there in two months. Fortunately, although the roads of the Southern Dynasties are of different widths, the map shows that there are not many rugged mountain roads on the road to Korea, but on the way you must pass through the mountains between Nachen and Houliang and Korea.
Jiang Lili didn't want to change the route, but he didn't want to be blocked by some robbers on the road for a long time, so he could only hope that the bandits in the mountains between the three kingdoms could have some eyes and know who should be beaten and who could not be provoked.
It wasn't until noon that he regained his spirits, and when he opened his eyes and looked left and right, he realized that he was in a carriage. After being slightly distracted, he lifted the curtain and showed his head, "Jiang Lili, where are we going?"
"Yo, you're awake, why don't you sleep to death?!" Jiang Lili sneered.
Cheng Ru touched his nose and laughed twice, "Isn't it miserable a few days ago, eh, where are we going?"
"South Korea. ”
"Where?" Cheng Ru was noisy by the rustling wind in his ears and didn't listen to Daqing, maybe because he was a little incredulous, so he asked again.
"South Korea! If you ask again, Lao Tzu will kick you down!"
Cheng Ru was stunned for a long time, frowned and said: "What are we going to do in South Korea? Didn't you listen to that little second child say that something happened to South Korea at this time? Ghosts are rampant, I'm afraid that I don't know when I will be taken off by ghosts, I don't want to go!"
Jiang Lili smiled, "Cheng, if you don't go, then you will go back!"
Cheng Ru turned his head to look at the wilderness, and after a moment of silence, he got into the carriage and didn't say anything more.
Jiang Lili rushed into the carriage and pulled Cheng Ru out of the carriage, "Do you still want to take the carriage? Do you think you are a young master? A stinky person who wants food should drive the carriage for Lao Tzu! If it is broken, Lao Tzu will kill your dog!"
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The territory of the Twelve Kingdoms of the Southern Dynasties is not big, nor is it small, and it takes almost a month to pass through the pass of the Chen State.
There is a big river with a width of more than ten miles between the pass of Chen and the Northern Ming Dynasty, I heard that this river is called Xiuchun River, and the name is also very poetic, but I don't know how much blood flowed into this Xiuchun River on both sides of the Xiuchun River during the war of the Southern Dynasties hundreds of years ago, and I don't know how many bones were buried in the soil on both sides of the Xiuchun River.
On both sides of the Xiuchun River, Beiming and Chen Guo each built tall city walls, and there were hundreds of soldiers armed with sharp knives and spears on the city wall looking at the pedestrians, but after a while, the eyes of these soldiers were on a small carriage, just because the little guy driving the carriage was too suspicious, and these soldiers couldn't help but wonder if there were black goods brought from Beiming in this carriage?
In fact, Cheng Ru was full of worry because of this, he saw Xiuchunjiang and shivered all over his body.
Those days on the Huilongjiang River really left a great shadow on Cheng Ruye's heart!
After being stopped by the soldiers of Beiming and inspecting the inside and outside of the carriage, Jiang Lili and Cheng Ru were released from the pass, Jiang Lili looked at Cheng Ru is angrily, "Can you have some backbone?
Cheng Ru didn't argue, he thought that he shouldn't have eaten much good food today, and he shouldn't have to be too painful when he vomited.
Fortunately, there is a stone bridge connecting the two sides of the Xiuchun River in addition to the boats coming and going, and there is no need to think about it, if you go to the bridge, you will definitely have to collect money.
Cheng Ru was very generous to pay for Jiang Lili and then passed the Xiuchun River from the stone bridge, but he was interrogated at the pass of Chen Guo, which delayed a lot of time.
Jiang Lili couldn't help but scold in his heart, this person is really useless!
I said before that Chen Guo was a little crushed by the always sluggish back beam, but after entering Chen Guo, I found that this was actually a light statement. Seven out of ten shops on the street have never opened, and begging flowers can be seen everywhere on the street, Jiang Lili smiled at Cheng Ru:
"Look, these are your peers, aren't you pitiful?"
Cheng Ru's face was flushed, knowing that if he refuted, he was afraid that he would be sarcastically ridiculed by Jiang Lili even more, so he didn't dare to say anything, and only wondered in his heart what method he had to use to make Jiang Lili forget about it. Suddenly, I remembered that there seemed to be such a trick in the Buddhist scriptures I studied, but this idea was quickly driven out of Chengru's mind, and he didn't want to be a monk. If the relics in the sea are out of control after using this trick, it will be really bad.
Because of the road, Jiang Lili and Cheng Ru did not move in the direction of the capital of the Chen State, but drove along the road on the edge of the Chen State. After entering Chen Guo for three days, Jiang Lili and Cheng Ru realized that the place they had seen at the pass was relatively wealthy, and the deeper they went, the more they realized that Chen Guoren was really poor.
After entering Chen Guo from Xiuchunjiang, it is considered a town, and you can go out of the town to the countryside to see the real embarrassment of Chen Guo.
I don't know if it was because of the weather or something else, but the farmland was full of weeds and the canals were dry. Everywhere in the fields, yellow-skinned children could be seen lying on the ground, digging for loaches and touching toads, and there were many old men with dark faces on the roadside, holding a cigarette with a long fingernail in their mouths, looking at the passers-by with eyes that did not know how to describe it.
Passing all the way, Cheng Ruye's face became more and more ugly, and there was an extremely obvious sympathy in his eyes, so obvious that Jiang Lili, who was only looking at the road, had already noticed it.
Jiang Lili sneered and said: "What's the matter? You still feel sorry for these rural villagers? If you have this leisure, you might as well worry about how to find a daughter-in-law and how to repay my money! You have used all my money along the way, not to mention that you still owe me a relic!"
Cheng Ru muttered, "What are you talking about at this time?"
"What? Am I still wrong?" Jiang Lili sneered: "Since they can live to this extent, they can only say that they have no ability and are not angry! Since they are not angry, then no matter how pitiful others are, it will be useless!"
"But aren't the people the monarch when they eat, and aren't they God's when they eat?" Cheng Ru argued with Jiang Lili: "Although the monarch of Chen State is not mediocre now, he is extremely incompetent! God has also delayed a sweet rain for Chen State, which is why they have no rice harvest, can they be blamed for this?"
"The people eat the monarch, eat the gods?" Jiang Lili laughed, and after laughing enough, he replied: "Aren't you and I originally ordinary people? Have you eaten the gods? Have you eaten the monarch? At this time, you can sit in the carriage and look down on these people because the monarch of the Great Sui gave you money, or did God give you money?"
Cheng Ru stopped talking, but his face was obviously unconvinced!
Jiang Lili squinted his eyes and noticed that Cheng Ru secretly threw down a few copper plates on the side of the road to a skinny old man wearing only a tattered robe, and then sneered and did not speak again.
Sure enough, it didn't take long to hear a noise behind him, and when he turned his head to look back, he saw dozens of old people scuffling, and the old man who was sent out by Cheng Ru had been beaten by several other old people with a bloody face, shouting inaudible words in his mouth, and still holding those copper plates in his hands!
Cheng Ru was speechless, he wanted to say, what's wrong with this world?
The carriage drove safely, and the long road was silent.