At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 744
Gao Bufan left the Miao village under the escort of [-] Miao soldiers, and headed upstream to Bajun.If the number of people is small, it is naturally more convenient to take a boat, but now that there are two hundred more Miao soldiers around, they can only walk by land.

From Linjiang County to Ba County, the county seat of upstream Ba County, the land distance is about [-] miles. Calculated by the footsteps of Miao soldiers, it should be able to arrive in about four or five days. It will arrive at night.

Miao people have lived in the mountains since they were young, and they have developed a good ability to climb mountains and mountains. They have good foot strength, fast footwork, and agility, which are one of the major advantages of Miao people.Another advantage of the Miao people is that they are easy to feed, and they are never picky about food and living conditions. Whether it is wild fruits and vegetables, or insects, ants, birds and animals, they will not refuse anything that can fill their stomachs. sleep peacefully.

The cost of supporting such a team of Miao soldiers is naturally very cost-effective, but there are good and bad things in everything, and there are also many shortcomings in Miao Bing. After only two days of marching, Gao Bufan is one head and two big. It's going to be crazy, if it's not for the three heads of Aqing, brother and sister, and Mengzi, these Miao soldiers are probably going to make trouble in the heavenly palace and become lawless.

It was noon, the sun was in the sky, and the autumn tiger released its heat wantonly. Everyone was sweating profusely. The coolness brought by the continuous autumn rain a few days ago had disappeared. The fact that it was so hot here a hundred years ago probably has something to do with the topography. The Sichuan plateau is surrounded by high mountains, which is really not conducive to the dissipation of heat.

Gao Bufan set up an awning and looked ahead, and vaguely saw the shadow of a city outline, so he asked Mengzi beside him, "Is that the city of Fuling County?"

Before Meng Zi opened his mouth, Ah Qing replied first: "Yes, my sister and I have been there many times, but the drug dealers there are all profiteers, and the prices are very low. Later, we stopped selling medicinal materials there. , Collected and transported to Jiangling downstream, the price can be multiplied seven or eight times, and some wild ginseng with good quality can even be multiplied by more than ten times!"

Speaking of these black-hearted medicinal material vendors, Ah Qing still couldn't help gnashing his teeth.

In his previous life, Gao Bufan took a boat trip to the Three Gorges and went to downtown Chongqing, but he had never been to Fuling. The reason why he knew this name was because the mustard here is very famous.

"The weather is hot, everyone rest for half an hour, drink some water to rest your feet, and then hurry to Fuling City." Gao Bufan ordered.

After giving an order, all the Miao soldiers dispersed immediately with a whoosh. Some found a shaded place to lie down on the ground, some ran to the side of the road and took out a thing and splashed water, and some rummaged frantically in the grass. Snakes, insects, rats and ants, and some looking around, drifting away, don't know what they are thinking.

Gao Dahe saw that Mengzi and others were not there, so he handed a water bag to Gao Bufan, and said in a low voice with a sullen expression: "His Royal Highness, we really shouldn't let these Miao soldiers come to escort us."

Gao Bufan asked knowingly, "Why?"

Gao Dahe frowned and said: "King Qi, you have also seen that the discipline of the Miao soldiers is lax, the marching and camping are always chaotic and disorderly, and... they don't pay attention to hygiene. Shit under the eaves. Forget it, those guys are still petty, and they love to take advantage of small things. Didn’t we pass by a market town yesterday? Okay guys, everything you see is smooth, buns from the bun stall, salted fish shop The salted fish, the cloth in the cloth shop, and even the broken pottery bowl used to feed the dog at the door of the house have been taken away. If this continues, your reputation, King Qi, will be ruined by these guys. What will happen then? Convince Berkshire prefect Xiao Yu to join us? Or send them back."

Gao Bufan pondered for a moment before saying: "The Miao people lived in the mountains since childhood, without the constraints of laws and rules, it's not that they are such people in their bones. You can see that Aqing, Ayu and Mengzi are not like this, because They often walk in the place where the Han people live, and they know the rules and obey the rules, so give these Miao soldiers some time to get used to it, the king has already talked with Ah Qing and the others, I believe they will restrain the people well."

Hearing the words, Gao Dahe could only nod his head and said, "Okay."

Half an hour passed, Gao Bufan ordered to set off again, but these Miao soldiers dragged their feet, it took nearly half a stick of incense to assemble, and there were two less people, all from Bai Miao.

Now Ah Qing and Ah Mi couldn't hold back their faces, the former looked ferocious, opened his throat and shouted the names of the two Miao soldiers.

After a while, I saw the two Miao soldiers running back from a distance in a panic, one of them was carrying an old hen upside down, sweating profusely from running, Gao Bufan couldn't help frowning.

"Where did you two die?" Ah Qing couldn't help saying, stepped forward and kicked each of them, knocking the two Miao soldiers to the ground.

The two Miao soldiers got up from the ground, drooping their heads and not daring to make a sound, Auntie asked coldly, "Where did the chicken come from?"

One of the Miao soldiers pointed in the direction they came and went: "It's the pheasant we caught in the grass over there." After speaking, he handed the hen to Auntie with a fawning expression on his face.

"I also... picked up an egg." Another Miao soldier hesitated and took an egg out of his pocket.

Gao Dahe muttered: "This hen doesn't look like a pheasant, maybe it was raised by others."

As soon as the words were finished, an old farmer came running from a distance with a dung fork on his shoulders, cursing angrily: "God damn chicken thief, return my chicken quickly."

The old farmer probably was getting old, and his eyesight was not very good. He chased after him cursingly, only to find that Gao Bufan was waiting for a large group of people, who were overwhelming Wu Yangyang. He was so scared that he turned around and slipped away with a dung fork on his shoulder. , Even the hens dare not ask for it.

"Old man, please stop." Gao Bufan hurriedly said loudly.

However, instead of stopping, the old farmer walked even faster, Gao Bufan had no choice but to shout: "Stop!"

Hey, the old farmer trembled all over, but stopped in his tracks, turned around tremblingly, threw the dung fork, knelt down and kowtowed: "My lord, please spare me, my lord, please forgive me, there is nothing in my family other than this old hen!" Nothing else."

Gao Bufan couldn't help crying and laughing, he stepped forward to help the old farmer up, and said in a friendly manner: "Don't panic, old man, we are not bandits and bandits, we will not rob, let alone take your life."

The old farmer was stunned for a moment, looked up at Gao Bufan carefully, and found that the young man in front of him was very handsome with red lips and white teeth, and he was dressed as a scholar. He couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said suspiciously: "You...you are really not bandits ?”

Gao Bufan shook his head with a smile and said: "Of course not!" After speaking, he winked at Auntie, who immediately whipped the two Miao soldiers and reprimanded him, "Why are you standing there? Hurry up and return home!"

The two Miao soldiers handed the hen and eggs to the old farmer in dejection, but the latter hesitated to accept them.Gao Bufan took the hen and eggs and put them into the hands of the old farmer, apologetically said: "Old man, I am not strict in discipline, I am really sorry, Dahe, I will give the old man fifty Wen as compensation."

Gao Dahe quickly took out [-] Wen and handed it to the old farmer. The latter looked surprised, but at this moment he finally believed that Gao Bufan was not a bandit. He took the hen and eggs and said: "There is no need for compensation, but my son In the future, I have to restrain my own men. My hen laid eggs in the grass under the fence. These two guys took them away sneakily. They even picked two gourds on the fence and only grew two. Thick fingers, isn't this a waste of food?"

Ah Mi couldn't help but blushed when she heard the words, and whipped the two Miao soldiers several times, and immediately they were beaten to pieces, and blood flowed from them, she asked, "Where's the melon?"

These two Hmong people are solid, they didn't make a sound when they were whipped like that, they just pointed at their stomachs embarrassingly, it seemed that they had already eaten the gourd and melon, and the melon, which was only two fingers big, was not enough for them to snap Two bites.

Ah Mi looked cold and stern, pulled out the sharp hatchet from her waist and threw it in front of the two of them, and said harshly: "Each finger is cut off!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the Miao soldiers present finally changed, and the faces of the two Miao soldiers involved turned pale, and they looked at A Qing beggingly.

Although Ah Qing felt that his sister was making a fuss over a molehill, he would not go against his sister's will for the sake of the fingers of two Miao soldiers. Sister's words?"

The ranks of the Miao people were still very strict, and the two Miao soldiers obviously did not dare to disobey, and they each chopped off a little finger, blood poured out immediately, and they wailed miserably.

Gao Dahe was silent when he saw this, and Gao Bufan just watched calmly and did not stop them. These Miao soldiers are too poorly disciplined, and they really need to be used as an example. Auntie acted decisively and strictly, with the style of a female general, very good!
The effect was undoubtedly quite obvious. Seeing his companion's finger broken, Miao Bing's sloppy expression immediately subsided, and he even stood up straight.

"Old man, I'm really sorry, they ate your melon, I'll pay you five cents!" Auntie took out five cents from her purse and handed it to the old farmer.

The old farmer saw that the girl was so majestic and vicious, he made two Miao soldiers cut off their fingers with one word, and dared to ask for her money, so he waved his hands again and again: "No need, no need, it's not worth much, oh... I would have known it earlier Don't mention it, there's nothing wrong with the two little melons." After speaking, he turned to leave.

At this moment, a group of people suddenly ran out not far away. The one who ran in the front was a girl in her teens, while the dozen or so people chasing after her were men and women, shouting something while chasing.

The girl was running this way, and she probably found a group of people gathered here. She hesitated for a moment before being thrown down by two villagers who were chasing up from behind.

"Let me go!" The girl struggled desperately and shouted, but was finally tied up.

Ah Mi was originally feeling ashamed and annoyed by the crimes committed by her clansmen. Seeing so many people oppressing a weak woman, she suddenly flew into a rage and rushed forward and shouted: "Stop!"

(End of this chapter)