"Jing'er, wash up and have breakfast, eat enough to hurry, and try to go early and return early. Wang Jing's mother saw the sleepy-eyed Wang Jing walking out of the door, and hurriedly urged loudly.

"Got it, look at how fast I'm flying! Wang Jing yawned and finished in a daze. He rubbed his eyes vigorously with both hands, and he was busy with his spirits.

After a while, Wang Jing was neatly dressed, patted his bulging belly, and said with a smile: "Let's go, we can go." ”

The nearest county seat to Wang Jing's village is called Qizhou City, close to the turbulent Yangzi River, where the rich often take boats up and down the river, while the poor go over the mountains. There is the Yangzi River flowing in front of Wang Jing Village, and you can reach it along the river embankment to Qizhou City. Of course, the river embankment is not an easy road, and there are several uninhabited cliffs, which is extremely dangerous to walk on the cart, which is the main reason why Wang Jing has not left the village for 12 years.

Father and son, you ask me and answer, talk and laugh, along the way, but not lonely. The sky turned from black to gray, and the horizon rose with colorful morning light, Wang Jing was fascinated by it, and he couldn't imagine that the scenery outside was so beautiful.

"Be careful, there is a ghost cliff ahead, you try to walk as close to the side of the stone wall as possible, and you don't have to bump the scooter, in case something happens, it doesn't matter if you drop something, you can still save your life." ”

At three poles in the sun, Wang Jing and his son pushed a two-wheeled cart and slowly came to a gray cliff. More than ten zhang below the cliff is the surging river water that rushes and roars, the cliff is smooth and hard bluestone, it is artificially dug out of a path that can just pass the two-wheeled vehicle, the cliff path is more than 100 zhang long, and it will fall into the Yangzi River to feed the king eight if you are not careful. The thrill of this place, Wang Jing's father mentioned it many times along the way, and when he arrived here, he specially reminded him.

"Daddy, it's so dangerous here, why don't you dig the road wider?" Wang Jing couldn't help but smile and turn pale when he saw the danger of this cliff for the first time, and asked in horror.

"Legend has it that this mountain is the small half of a big mountain in the upper reaches of the Yangzi River, tens of thousands of years ago, two immortals fought, split the mountain into two, and the small half flew here. “

"The rock of this mountain is hard, and it is particularly difficult to excavate, and many ancestors have sacrificed their precious lives because of the way to dig this road and fall off the cliff. After the unremitting efforts of generations of ancestors, today's results are possible. It's not that I don't want to dig a little wider, but the cost of digging is too great, and it is difficult for manpower to continue. ”

Wang Jing's father looked at the rushing river and said with a sigh.

"Immortals are really not a thing, and I don't deal with the consequences caused to myself, and one day in the future, I will definitely make the cliff path here a wide and smooth path. Wang Jing clenched his small fists and said with a resolute face.

"Shhh

"I know, not to mention the bad thing about immortals, in the future, I will practice immortal spells, and I will definitely do more good things for the villagers. Wang Jing saw his father's sincere prayer for himself, and said with a firm gaze.

After praying, Wang Yuan looked at the cart full of goods, and looked at the rushing river under his feet, and couldn't help frowning.

"Daddy, you unload some of the goods in the cart and I'll take them, and run a few more times, so that your cart will be much safer." Wang Jing stuck out his tongue and suggested to his father. I thought to myself, "If there is an accident, there will be no loss of light." ”

Wang Yuan thought about it and felt that Wang Jing's words were reasonable, so he nodded and said: "Okay, I will unload most of the items in the safety of this cliff mouth, you watch here, I will send it over and unload it, and you will go over." ”

At Wang Jing's suggestion, Wang Yuan unloaded the items on the car and pushed them over, turned back to load them, and ran back and forth five or six times in a row. Although sometimes half of the wheel accidentally slipped off the cliff, fortunately, the car was not heavy, and he was pulled up without danger, and a few beast skins were dropped, and the loss was not very large.

Fifty or sixty miles of mountain roads, such cliffs have experienced seven or eight places, and it is not until ten o'clock in the evening that I can see Qizhou City from a distance. The city wall of Qizhou City is tall and sturdy, there are more than a dozen thatched houses in the village high, and it is particularly majestic and beautiful under the glow of the sunset. At this time, Wang Jing, who was full of exhaustion, rose in his heart to find the hope of learning immortal arts in the city, and mustered up the energy to help his father push the cart.

As the field of vision got closer and closer, Wang Jing saw two rows of brightly armored guards standing under the city gate, holding bright knives and guns and other weapons, all with their heads held high. In front of the guards, a counter was set up, and there was a bookkeeper with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and every citizen who entered the city automatically stepped forward to hand over a copper plate, and then he could enter the city through the front of the guards.

"Hey, I said that you two, you only hand over one copper plate, which one is entering the city?" said the bookkeeper with an unkind face when he saw a copper plate in front of him.

"Sir, aren't I going to go into the city to sell things, the child is still young, the first time you come, you can be accommodating. Wang Yuan said respectfully with a smile.

"Everyone is like you, do you want to maintain this Qizhou City? Do you want to ensure the safety of the people in the city? If you don't have money, you can either enter a person, or take the dog chain in the car as a bamboo basket for me, and it will not be easy for me to see you, both copper plates are exempted, and your entrance fee to the city will be counted." The bookkeeper with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks shook his head, squinted at the red and bright fresh wild fruits on the car, and couldn't help but fall out of the corners of his mouth.

I worked hard to pick a large basket of dog chains, walked more than 100 miles back and forth, and only sold a dozen copper plates to the city, and experienced dangers on the road. And a bag of fragrant cloud cake or a small tablespoon of coarse salt in the city costs a copper plate, and these luxuries are what every countryman who enters the city wants to bring back, so the city people will always be richer than the country people.

Wang Yuan's good words were useless, so he had to take out the only copper plate from his sweat-soaked pocket and hand it over, before slowly entering the city with the flow of people under the impatient greeting of the guards.

"Damn, it's a pity that I didn't eat a good dog leash, I didn't expect this poor ghost in the countryside to really have two copper plates!" the bookkeeper looked at the backs of Wang Jingye and cursed regretfully.

Wang Jing's eyes flashed with anger and cold light, his hands clenched into fists, and he secretly swore: "In the future, when I learn immortal arts, I must punish the corrupt officials here, let the countrymen enter the city for free, and throw all these black-hearted businessmen to Yangzijiang to feed Wang Ba." ”

There are two heavens inside and outside the city. As soon as I entered the city gate, I saw a wide and clean bluestone paved street, and there were many shops on both sides of the street, and there were some wild fruits selling mountain goods outside the shops. The sound of buying and selling, the sound of bargaining, one after another, is very lively.

Wang Yuan found a vacancy, put pheasants, wild boars, and fox skins on the handrails of the cart, and placed the three baskets of dog chains next to the cart.

"Boss, how do you sell this fox skin?"

"Boss, how do you sell this wild boar?"

"Boss, how do you sell this dog leash?"

There are many people who ask the price, and there are few people who really buy it, pick and choose to practice, and kill the price, a copper plate is more important than life, and Wang Jing was speechless for a while, which can be regarded as seeing the careful calculation of the people in the city. When the sky is dark, the streets are sparsely populated, and the city is full of lights, only one pheasant and two wild boar are sold. Because the wild fruit was not resistant to storage, Wang Yuan sold two baskets at a low price, leaving one basket for the uncle as a gift.

"Let's go, go to your uncle's, and now go to their house for dinner and taste the food in the city. Seeing Wang Jing's exhausted appearance, Wang Yuan knew that it was the first time he had walked so far, and now he must be hungry, and said with regret and kindness.

After packing up their belongings, the father and son walked out of the cart for half an hour, came to a delicate courtyard, and knocked lightly on the door a few times. In a moment, a group of people walked out, led by an old man of sixty or seventy years old with white hair, whose face was full of red light under the light of the lantern. Next to him was a delicate Confucian student, a boy of the same age as Wang Jing.