Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

As soon as he entered the official path, he immediately felt a sense of enlightenment.

Then Qingyan discovered that when they came this way, they just bypassed a dilapidated stone bridge.

Because the river crossed the main road, a bridge was built there, but it looked a lot old, and the stone bricks in many places had fallen off, and it looked like a dangerous bridge in later generations.

And they crossed the small path, just going around the bridge, and the path was tens of meters away from the stone bridge.

Qingyan looked left and right, but she didn't know if it was because of the middle of the day, but after she got on the official road, it was empty and she didn't see anyone.

Qingyan was puzzled and said to Chou Chou: "Chou Chou, what's going on? This is not the official way at all, but another way, right? Are we going wrong? Didn't the magpie say that the official way? Are there many people? There is no one here."

Chou Chou turned over lazily in his satchel to make himself more comfortable, and then replied: "I did nothing wrong, this is the official way, and there are people there, there is a group of people not far in front, how many people are there over there?" A big tree, where those people eat dry food and enjoy the shade by the way.

Going forward, there is another group of people, like this group of people, who also found a place with trees to eat, and a few people spread a mat on the ground to take a nap. "

Qingyan raised her eyebrows, thinking that those people should not be in a hurry and wanted to wait until the sun was not so bright before leaving, she was a little envious.

In fact, she has already arrived here, and she is not afraid of the Chen family chasing after her. They can also find a place to rest and wait for it to cool down before leaving.

It's just that she didn't have much time in ancient times, so she arrived in the capital earlier, so she could help Xue Minghua and the others settle down earlier, saving time and running out of time.

So they walked in the direction that Chou Chou said, and even if Chou Chou didn't show the way after they became official, they would not go wrong.

After walking a few hundred meters on a road not covered by trees, I saw the person who Chou Chou said was sitting under a tree to enjoy the cool and eat dry food.

It should be a large family, including men, women, old and young. At a rough look, there are about [-] people. The family conditions of this family should be good. There are two ox carts and one mule cart.

Don't ask how Qingyan figured out that it was a mule. There are horses and donkeys in the Xiangxiang space. She has seen them since she was a child. The mules look different from donkeys and horses, but they all have similarities. It appears to be a combination of the two types.

She heard from her grandparents that a mule is stronger than a donkey.It is cheaper than horses, and it is easy to feed. It is very popular in rural areas. The only disadvantage is that it cannot reproduce offspring.

She remembered that when she went back to her hometown, she heard an old lady call someone a second chair. She went back and asked her grandma, who said it meant a mule, and it could also be interpreted as neither male nor female, that is, people who would not have children.

Qingyan had never seen a mule before, and this was the first time she had seen a mule. She sized it up as she drove the cart closer.

Well, it does look very powerful, bigger than a donkey and slightly longer than a horse's ears.

The family was eating together, and when they saw a car passing by, they all looked over, and when they saw a young woman driving the car, they all looked surprised.

Immediately afterwards, they were attracted by the shed on the donkey cart. They stopped eating and looked at the donkey cart.

Qingyan didn't feel embarrassed to be watched, she was used to this kind of attention, she could experience it every time she went back to her hometown or went to Hong Kong City, she was used to it.

Anyway, he didn't intend to stop to communicate with the other party, so he just drove the donkey cart past them.

After walking a certain distance, they heard discussions coming from behind.

A young man whispered, "Brother, look at the donkey cart. The shed at the back is pretty good. It looks simple, but it can block the sun. Sitting there, even if you are on your way now, you won't be exposed to the sun."

Another young man replied: "It looks very practical. The three of our cars have no shelter. Not to mention that people are sitting in the sun, and we have to be careful not to drop things, and worry about the children. It's really not good." Safety."

"Then why not, let's also take a mat and make it a shed to block the top."

"Yes, yes, let's also build a shed, otherwise we will suffer from heatstroke before we get to Bianzhou." A middle-aged woman actively echoed.

"Then build a piece in the front. Our ox cart is not as good as someone else's donkey cart. It's dead slow. I sit in the front and drive the cart. It's too hot to die. If I can get a shed like that, I'll be cooler." Said the young man before.

A more mature voice said: "You can make it as you like, it's not that easy, we have mats, but do you know how the skeleton inside the house is made?
The shed protruding from the front of the shed is easy to say, it looks like it is made of grass and wicker, but the curved shape of the car shed is so round, it must not be made of ordinary wooden frames. "

Another young man said: "Isn't it ordinary wood? Could it be specially found to be bent? It can't be made of iron, right? It's impossible even if you think about it."

"Could it be that the mat was bent and tied up like that? Maybe the mat itself is hard, and it props itself up."

said the woman.

"How is that possible? That's not a bamboo mat. The reed mat can't hold up." The middle-aged man said.

"Don't we have bamboo mats, just try it out." The woman retorted.

On the contrary, the young man was led to have a thought, and said excitedly: "Father and mother, do you think it is supported by bamboo?"

"It's really possible, isn't there a bamboo chair in our house, isn't the armrest of that bamboo chair bent.

It's just that we're not at home, and we don't know where to find bamboo. Even if we find it, we don't know how to bend it. Everyone has a knack for it, and this kind of thing won't be spread... "

Qingyan pricked up her ears to listen to their conversation as she walked forward, she was a little surprised when she heard the content, she really can't underestimate anyone, just take a look at them, and you can think of what material they are made of up.

When I first came here, I still felt that I came from a later age. After nine years of schooling, I should be much better than these ignorant ancients. Later, when I met everyone in Yangjiaping, she also had a sense of superiority.

Afterwards, after in-depth contact, she gradually stopped thinking that way. Although she didn't know a single word, whether it was forging iron or refining salt, she just said it out of her mouth, and she made it out.

It is much stronger than myself who only knows theoretical knowledge, especially the hands-on ability, which is really amazing.

The ancients of the people are just that education is not popular, communication is inconvenient, resulting in too little knowledge, as long as they have seen it once, just like her shed, as long as they arrive, they can guess the principles and materials inside.

Thinking about later generations, many things have not been handed down from ancient times, so we really can't underestimate the ancients. Many people in later generations are just picking up the wisdom of others.

Qingyan adjusted her mentality once again, and felt that she still had a lot to learn, and she must study the history carefully after returning home.

Turning back to Xue Minghua's mother and son, he said, "Are you hungry now? If so, let's find a place to rest in front and eat something before leaving."

She didn't know what the three of them ate for lunch, but she also knew that they usually had two meals a day. Fu said it was a hot breakfast before, and it wouldn't be too full. They should be hungry now.

After hearing this, the two children looked at their mother.

Xue Minghua shook his head and said, "It's still early, let's go a little further. I ate an apple earlier, and I'm not very hungry. Let's stop to eat when we reach Shenshi."

Qingyan did some calculations, and now this time should be the end of the night, and Shen Shi is two hours later, that is four or five o'clock, and the sun is quite bright at four or five o'clock in summer, of course.

Nodding his head, he still said to them: "There are egg cakes in the basket. If you are hungry, you can just take it in your hand and eat it. You don't have to wait until you get there to eat."

She ate in the morning and at noon, so she was really not hungry, but she was afraid that the three mothers would be embarrassed, so she ordered it.

Xue Minghua smiled and said: "It's still not possible. It's not comfortable to eat in such a bumpy way. It's better to wait for the time. Let's find a place to eat in a down-to-earth manner."

After hearing this, Qingyan didn't say anything more.

I chatted with them about other things, because I just met, but I didn't talk much, the main thing was to talk about some things she encountered on the road before, and I said something in detail.

After that, Xue Minghua introduced the capital city to her, and let the two children listen to it by the way.

Of course, the situation was more than ten years ago. In fact, so many years have passed, and there must be changes, but the big things should not change too much.

The three of them listened carefully, and they were talking about the prosperity of the city back then, and which gate they, the common people, should enter and exit through, and where they should not wander around. Also, there was no curfew in the capital before.

It's just that there are no people wandering outside at night. After all, the shops are closed, and there are no street lights for later generations. It's dark everywhere outside. If there is no urgent matter, no one will wander outside.

After that, I also talked about the general layout of the capital. The layout there is not much different from Hancheng. It is worth mentioning that the capital they have been talking about is not Luocheng, the imperial city of the later Tang Dynasty, but Weizhou, the Xingtang Prefecture in Tokyo. It is the Daming Mansion of later generations, and it is the place where the emperor of the later Tang Dynasty proclaimed himself emperor, so the people here are called the capital, and the place where the emperor lives is called the imperial city.

The city there is not big, but because of its special significance and special geographical advantages, it is more prosperous and more valued.

This Qingyan only knew about it, she was a little vague about the timeline of this era, and many of them were wrong.

From Hancheng to Xingtang Mansion, according to the calculation of later generations, it is a distance of eighty or ninety kilometers, which is nearly two hundred miles. According to their speed, they should be able to get there if they don't rest for a whole afternoon.

According to the distance that Chou Chou said, Qingyan calculated the time more accurately, so she felt that what Xue Minghua just said, finding a place to rest and eat at four or five o'clock was a good suggestion.

They can still travel a little longer now, and they are not too far away from their destination by the time of application, and they can also take a solid rest.

Of course, they can't waste too much time, after all, they still have to settle down after arriving in the capital tonight, so they have to plan well, what to do if they can't enter Xue's residence.

Always set aside time to find an inn to rest.

And she has to go to the bank to exchange the gold for silver notes.

Fortunately, there is still one day tomorrow to help with the settlement, otherwise it would be too late.

After walking another [-] meters, we met a second wave of people. This wave of people didn't look like a family like before.

These people looked a bit like everyone in Yangjiaping, acquaintances from a village gathered together on their way.

This group of people had no livestock, only three wheelbarrows, and the others were carrying burdens or carrying baskets on poles.

Those wheelbarrows and pole baskets were all poked aside now, some of the crowd were eating, some women were tidying up their things, and a few elderly people were resting on the straw mats spread on the ground.

The ragged clothes these people wore were similar to those worn by everyone in Yangjiaping. They said that patches piled up were nice, and some children simply had two pieces of rags hanging on them, covering the front and back.

The younger ones were simply naked, without even a pair of straw sandals, and ran barefoot on the ground.

Qingyan rejoices again, fortunately, although these can be regarded as refugees fleeing from famine, they are not fleeing from famine. Strong women and children are likely to become the target of the other party.

Those people, like the big family before, stared at their donkey cart. They should have seen the accident of Qingyan, a little girl driving the cart in front of them, but they didn't have any malicious intentions. They were all ordinary villagers.

Qingyan smiled and nodded towards the women and children who had been staring at her, then stretched out her hand and patted the donkey's buttocks, signaling it to speed up and quickly passed those people.

The little donkey seemed to understand what she meant, and the four short legs began to toss and turn at an accelerated pace, causing Qingyan to lean back.

Although the main road was much smoother, given the wooden wheels of the donkey cart, the bumps were still bumpy, at least not like before, where the bumpy viscera seemed to be tossing the river and the sea, which was still within an acceptable range.

After a distance, Qingyan still listened to the conversations of those people, not because she liked to listen to the corners, but mainly because she wanted to learn about the situation of this era through these passers-by.

Who let her know is still too little.

As a result, I listened for a while, until I couldn't hear the sound, and I didn't hear any useful information. They were all talking about a young woman like her driving a car outside, and then they were talking about their car shed. Strong envy, nothing else.