burning nations

Chapter 68 To Qizhou

"Yaya, what did you say to Yang Xiong just now? It will take so long?"

"It's nothing, I know some grievances with Song Sheng from his mouth. Of course, I didn't expect this guy to be so long-winded!"

Ye Lixiao was curious, Zhang Cai smiled lightly and revealed the matter unintentionally.But Ye Lixiao didn't doubt it, and the prairie boy believed it.

After getting rid of Song Sheng, there is nothing left to do, it is nothing more than going to Qizhou as planned and then returning to Dijing.There are many roads to go to Qizhou, and the most convenient way is the waterway, but considering the three reasons of Chinese New Year, Ye Lixiao’s dislike of water and the bad luck of Song Shenggang’s death, the waterway was decisively abandoned.
But if you want to go by land, there are only a few options, basically all of which were taken by Qi Qi and Zhang Cai that year.As for the road that must be passed from Tongguan to Luozhou, Zhu Tong took it with him, and there was no strange way.

Needless to say, first light a bonfire and stay until dawn, and bake two breads for supper by the way.Zhang Cai was roasting tirelessly, while Ye Lixiao over there was already sleepy, running and taking a boat, exhausted a lot of energy and fell asleep.Because the two were not far apart, Ye Lixiao leaned on Zhang Cai's shoulder and fell asleep. Zhang Cai froze and moved his buttocks to Ye Lixiao's side to make him more comfortable.

The night was long, and the next morning nothing happened and continued on the road. Zhang Cai led the way through Taolin, passing through Shanzhou and Xiashisu Xin'an County; the next day bypassed Luozhou, passing through Yanshi, Gongxian, and Sishui , At the Hulao Pass, the identity card was verified and released to Heyin.

At this point, the land of Guanluo has left, and in front of the two of them is the flat and wide land of the Central Plains!

It is Central Continent with a population of billions!

That day, they stayed in Heyin and fed the horses with salted eggs. The next day, the two of them passed Zheng, Bian, and Cao states in one go, and arrived at Yuncheng County, Yunzhou at the end of the day, where they stayed overnight.

Leading the horse into Yuncheng, Zhang Cai pays attention to the surroundings. The market is as chaotic as ever, and there are more refugees and beggars. The young master picks and picks away one child after another, and the hungry people dig through the garbage to eat. Everything is like yesterday, nothing has changed, the hell on earth is still the hell on earth.

"Yuncheng County is still like this." Zhang Cai sighed quietly.

When Ye Lixiao saw it, the man in the prairie couldn't help feeling compassionate: "It's so tragic, I never imagined that there are such a group of people in the empire because of natural disasters? Natural disasters are inevitable, but won't the empire provide relief? On the grassland, if a natural disaster freezes the tribe’s cattle and sheep to death, Dad will lend the sheep to help the tribe survive.”

"Oh, relief." A sneer flashed across Zhang Cai's face, and he recalled the scenes of the year. It was in the villages and towns under Yuncheng County that he encountered tax collectors and squeezed oil and water from the poor people. Skip it, Zhang Cai shook his head with a broken smile.

"Brother Huangmao, the empire is an empire, not a grassland. Don't use the standard of the grassland to measure the empire." Zhang Cai continued to mock.

Looking at the ravaged refugees, Zhang Cai, who has read poetry and books and has a lot of ink in his belly, expresses his feelings for a while.

"I was originally a woodcutter hunter, Zhang Qiuye, and my life is leisurely. I can sing wildly in the grass, but I would rather be an official in the dust? I only say that there is nothing to do in a small city, and everything in the public family is expected. Greeting the chief is heartbroken, and whipping Li Shu Sad."

That night, Zhang Cai said a lot to Ye Lixiao, from Jeju to Yunzhou, then to Yuncheng County, and then to Dayeze, the poor homeless Zhang Cai said too much.However, by her unintentional actions, she tore up Li Xiao, the extrovert of the empire, and sowed seeds in his heart, until the future completely destroyed Zhao Ju and Tong Guan's painstaking business plan.

We will talk about this later.

The sun rose as usual the next day. The two of them left Yuncheng early in the morning. They walked very slowly, admiring the scenery along the way. They came to Yunzhou City along the west bank of Dayeze. The suburbs of Zhouzhou City.

The two rode forward slowly, and Ye Lixiao followed Zhang Cai to a mountain.

At this time, it was January 41, the 1st year of flattering Zhangwu.

New Years has just passed, but it's not quite over yet.

Standing on the horse in the countryside, Zhang Caimei's eyes were slightly closed, greedily inhaling the familiar atmosphere emanating from the mountains and forests until Ye Lixiao farted.

Zhang Cai raised his eyebrows immediately, and gave Ye Lixiao a hard look.

Ye Lixiao smiled awkwardly.

Zhang Cai turned her head, her eyes fixed on Gao Shan, and after about 10 seconds, she whipped and whistled, her voice soft and slow.

"Brother Huangmao, this mountain is called 'Mount Qingcheng'. There is a road to the mountain. Do you want to go with me? I want to pay homage to a relative by the way."

Ye Lixiao replied without even thinking: "I will definitely go with you, I don't want to have something like Shifangyuan happen again in Qizhou thousands of miles away!"

Zhang Cai smiled lightly: "No, Brother Huang Mao. Yaya has lived here for 10 years."

Without waiting for Ye Lixiao to speak, Zhang Cai hurriedly rode up the mountain.

Ye Lixiao quickly followed.

With Zhang Cai's guidance, the two quickly came to the top of the mountain. This road is no different from Zhang Cai's familiarity. She can't go wrong with her eyes closed.

When I returned to the hunter's hut on the mountain where I had been away for 2 years—the small house where Zhang Cai lived for 10 years, it had collapsed in the wind and rain and became a pile of hopeless ruins.

When Zhang Cai saw the ruins, she lost her mind, as if her heart had been hit hard!She got off the horse and ran quickly to the ruins, holding up piles of thatch dust with both hands, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Seeing his woman crying, Ye Lixiao quickly stepped forward and hugged her into his arms, comforting her softly.

"Huangmao, this is my home." Zhang Cai explained to Ye Lixiao.

Later, Zhang Cai wiped away her tears and faced Ye Lixiao with a smile: "It's nothing, it's nothing, the house collapsed, and everything can't go back."

Then he remembered something, and immediately broke free from Ye Lixiao's arms: "Huangmao, wait for me here for a while, don't leave, I'll go back as soon as I go!"

After finishing speaking, he quickly ran into the hunting forest where he used to live. After 30 minutes, Ye Lixiao came back with a lot of things when Ye Lixiao got angry at the corner of his mouth.

"Try it, it's all special." After finishing speaking, Zhang Cai sat down on the floor, tidied up her messy hair, wiped off the soil stains on her face, and feasted on the picked mangosteen, bamboo shoots, berries, wild vegetables, etc. A delicacy that was essential to every meal a few years ago.

Ye Lixiao looked at the wild game scattered all over the place, and his tone was full of indescribable emotions: "Yaya, you are really familiar with this place."

"Yeah, I've lived here for 10 years!"

"Yaya, thank you for your hard work, it's too hard"

"I don't think it's bitter. Hey, if it's not that I can't find prey in winter, I must invite my brother to have a barbecue dinner! Come, try it."

After receiving the mangosteen from Zhang Cai, Ye Lixiao tasted it. It was very difficult to eat, but seeing how intoxicated Zhang Cai was eating, he could only say against his heart: "It's great! It's very delicious! Is there any more?"

Zhang Cai said: "If you want to eat, you can only go back next time. It's getting dark today. We have to find an inn before the city is closed at sunset and curfew. Otherwise, you and I will have to sleep in the wilderness."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Cai turned to look at the ruins again: "I really don't want to live in the inn in Qizhou. If my family is still there, I will definitely not enter Qizhou city!"

"Curfew? Closing the city?" Ye Lixiao asked strangely: "I can understand that the city gates are closed at night, but they are not allowed to go out at night. This..."

"It can't be helped, who told this to be Qizhou and not Dijing!" Zhang Cai spread his hands.

"Okay, let's eat quickly, I have to go to worship my relatives."

After 30 minutes, Ye Lixiao and Zhang Cai came to a tombstone, engraved with the "Spiritual Tablet of Zhang's Aji".

I saw Zhang Cai put down the collected game as a tribute, and then knelt down in front of the tomb.

"Uncle Aji, Yaya came back to see you, how are you over there?"

"Uncle, Yaya has restrained her lust and made many friends. What about you? How are you doing there? You taught me my archery skills. I believe you are already an archer in that world." .”

"Uncle, our house collapsed, Yaya is so sad, I really hope it wasn't the bastards of the Zhang family who did it while I was away, otherwise I can't spare them!"

"Uncle, this is Ye Lixiao, my friend. He is from He, and he is a famous archer on the grassland. It would be great if you were alive. Yaya wants to know which of you is better at archery."

"Uncle, Yaya is gone, Yaya doesn't know when she will come next time, take care, Yaya will always remember you, take care."

(End of this chapter)