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

Because she couldn't see the appearance of the city with her own eyes, and she couldn't ask anything from Chou Chou, Qingyan kept her doubts in her heart for the time being, and asked when she really went to which city or county. .

In this way, they walked unsteadily for another half an hour, and Chou Chou suddenly said to her: "There is a village in front, and it is more than 20 miles east from the current position, next to the road friends. This village is really hidden. I only noticed it when I saw the farmland.”

"Why did you only discover it now? Isn't your spiritual consciousness able to extend twenty kilometers away?"

Chou Chou explained: "That village is not like an ordinary village. I followed the farmland and searched for a while before I found it."

Listening to what it said, Qingyan asked again in doubt: "The location of the village is so hidden? Is it in the valley?"

At this time, the carriage suddenly jolted violently, Chou Chou was thrown into the air, and Qingyan grabbed the frame of the carriage beside her to stabilize her body.

Chouchou used his spiritual sense to look outside, and found that the road was full of potholes, so he simply climbed onto Qingyan's lap and sat down.

Then he said to her: "That's not true, that village is not on the ground, but underground."

Qingyan wrapped her arms around it, blinked curiously and said, "Is it underground? Did you dig a dungeon?"

Chou Chou shook his head, "Have you forgotten the yard you saw in the old photos before? Your parents took you there to play."

Qingyan thought for a while to add her previous guess, and soon remembered, "You mean that pit yard?"

Chou Chou nodded, "That's right, it's that kind of yard. There are a total of more than a dozen households. The yard is quite neat, but it's a little far from the main road, six or seven miles south of the road."

Qingyan was a little puzzled and said: "Then we are in the Southern Song Dynasty now? I remember that the village chief said that they can trace back to the Southern Song Dynasty.

At that time, my parents specially took me there to play, to the place where they secretly traded cattle and sheep in the past six or a few years.

The village head took us to see a courtyard site with a history of hundreds of years. It was well preserved, and I even took pictures in it. "

Chou Chou: "Not necessarily, maybe it's just that their detailed records in the Song Dynasty have been preserved, and there are also other places in the Dikengyuan. It doesn't necessarily appear from then on."

What Chou Chou said is correct, this pit courtyard can be traced back to the Yangshao culture 6000 years ago, but they didn't study these specifically, so they don't know.

Qingyan felt reasonable when she heard what it said, nodded and said: "Then it doesn't matter which dynasty we are in now, no wonder you can't find it, the source is hidden underground, and it's night now, most people probably can't see it .

I heard from my dad before that the yard can avoid the chaos of war very well. It doesn’t mean that you are far away, but you are close. If there is no sound from inside, most people can’t find the yard there. It looks like a flat river. .

But you said that there are fields nearby, so the yard should also be exposed, right? "

Chou Chou shook his head, "The distance between the field and the yard is not close. Those people probably built their village far away from the road to avoid the war. There is also a distance of two or three miles between the field and the yard. .

In order to provide cover, several thatched huts were built near the fields, giving people the same feeling as the farmers there.

There should be people living there during normal times or when the grain is harvested. It looks like there are people living there. Even if someone finds out, they will probably think that the villagers have left temporarily. "

"This is the wisdom of the ancients..." Qingyan said with emotion.

Chou Chou nodded in agreement.

"But if this is the case, how do we get to his village? They have already avoided them on purpose, and we still came to the door, isn't it exposed?"

Qingyan was entangled again, the village found out that it was the same, and they had no way to get in touch.

Chou Chou comforted: "Don't worry, since there is a village, other villages or towns shouldn't be too far away. Let's go a little further. Anyway, it's still early in the morning."

Qingyan also felt that it was reasonable, and raised her hand to look at her watch. It was just one o'clock, and if it was in the northwest, it was late at dawn, and it was indeed still early before dawn.

They still went according to the previous plan, as long as they found a town, they could find a hidden place to rest first, and then slowly set off after dawn tomorrow.

After walking forward for more than half an hour, I found a few more villages, both in the south and north of the road, but they were not on the side of the road, or in a forest a few miles away, or on the side of a mountain. place inside.

Those people probably don't come out easily, so there is no path to enter the village like they found before.

It's right to think about it, since this is a retreat from the world, it must be best not to let people find out the clues.

Most people nowadays are self-sufficient, and they can get their own food and clothing. Except for ironware and salt, most of them can make everything else by themselves.

No matter which dynasty, iron utensils and salt will not be in the hands of the common people, either under the control of official uniforms, or in the hands of some powerful families.

Ordinary people can only buy or exchange, which is impossible.

After walking forward for more than ten minutes, Chou Chou said happily: "I finally saw the town!"

Qingyan hurriedly asked: "Is it a city or a small town?"

"Wait, I just saw the edge, I need to get closer."

As the carriage continued to move forward, the scenes over there were also reflected in Chou Chou's consciousness one by one.

"It's a town. There is no city wall outside, but it's bigger than the towns I've seen before. It should be the largest town in the vicinity. There are probably hundreds of families in it. The houses are densely built. There are also some villages not far from the outside. , there is farmland, and it also occupies a large area.

There are two main streets in the center of the town, and there are many shops. There are also inns, teahouses, taverns and the like, which are quite complete. "

The more Qingyan listened, the happier she became. This is actually better. It would be more troublesome to enter the city. Jincheng not only has to check the luggage, but also pays the entrance fee. Most people don't have any important things and rarely go to the city.

If you drive a car with a load, you have to pay another fee, and you pay more for carrying goods, which is a bit like tolls or booth fees in later generations.

This kind of small town is different. It is generally open, and you can come in and out at will. It is specially convenient for those villagers who have opened houses to buy and sell things or trade in it, and there is no need to pay any fees.

In Qingyan's cognition, the smaller city should be the county seat of later generations. After all, adding the word city after the county can show that there is a city.

Then a bigger city should be a city, and a bigger one should be a provincial capital. Like Hancheng they went to before, it should be equivalent to an ordinary city, and Xingtang Mansion is equivalent to a provincial capital or a municipality directly under the central government. After all It has a special meaning in it.

Now that I have a goal, it seems that the road is not so bumpy, and I can drive faster.

According to the original speed, the distance of about [-] kilometers would take a few hours anyway.

Now with a purpose, Chou Chou also accelerated the speed of Big Bear, and they were halfway there in less than an hour.

Chou Chou began to look for a place to sleep along the way, after all, it is not easy to stay in a hotel in the town at this time.

Although it is said that you can go in and stay in the inn by knocking on the door at night, after all, guests may not be able to arrive before dark, and most of them will be on duty 24 hours a day.

But on the bright side, Qingyan is only a single woman, so it is not convenient to go to the lodging alone. If you encounter that kind of bad inn, or there are bad people in the inn, it will be troublesome. It is better to go the next morning, by the way Still can buy something.

Find a place outside at night, make do with a night's rest, and feel better.

After walking for a while, Chouchou said to Qingyan: "There is an abandoned cave dwelling not far ahead, why don't we go there to rest for the night, the cave dwelling is quite big, the doors and windows have been removed, we can put The carriages are driven in."

From Chou Chou's point of view, the inside is clean and empty, and there are no people around, so it's the most suitable place for them to rest.

"Is it also that kind of pit yard?" Qingyan asked.

Chou Chou shook his head, "No, it's just a separate cave dug on a slope, and I don't know what it was used for before, so it's all alone.

The door faces south, and our road is on the north side of the cave. The location is quite hidden and will not be easily discovered. "

"That's good, let's go there quickly, I'm sleepy."

Because of the faster speed, the road here is too bumpy, and I can't sleep even if I want to sleep.

Chouchou made Big Bear speed up even more, headed towards that location, and walked eastward for more than ten minutes. Chouchou pointed to the wasteland by the roadside and said, "Go two miles south from here and you'll be there. Don't look at so many weeds, but the ground below is actually quite compact, with fewer pits than on the road."

Chou Chou let the carriage go a few steps forward, turned right on a relatively flat slope, and headed south.

Anyway, there is no need to look at the road, so Qingyan chatted with Chou Chou again, "Chou Chou, when you return to the heyday, how far can your spiritual consciousness cover?"

Chou Chou: "I haven't tried it, but I was the same as Xiangxiang before I was injured, and I can directly cover a province."

"Then will that be your peak period?"

Chou Chou shook his head, "Of course not, it's just returned to adulthood, after all, we've only cultivated for a few decades, if we really reach the peak period, we probably can cover several countries directly."

"Can't it cover the entire earth?"

Ugly smiled and said: "How is it possible? The laws of heaven cannot make us strong to that extent. According to Taoism, everything has yin and yang, and there is negative and positive. They are all mutually generated and restrained. If any existence alone reaches the extreme Without the restraint of the opponent, it is not far from destruction.

Just like me and Xiangxiang, we are both alien beasts, and the other alien beasts are silent relics, why is it not only me or Xiangxiang, but the two of us, who happen to be opposites?

It is for checks and balances, let us check each other.

Don't look at how we fought from childhood to adulthood, every time we fought until one side was rebuilt, but we never killed one side.

Even when it comes to rebuilding, one party will not be seriously injured and the other is still in its heyday. That is impossible. Basically, both sides will be injured, and then both will retreat together. This is a kind of balance. "

Qingyan nodded, "So that's the case, so the future generations should also have people who practice? Why can't I practice? Is it because my talent is not good?"

"That's not true, it's because the spiritual energy of the later generations is thin, and they have already entered the Dharma-ending era, so they can't practice, and it's not that there are no practitioners, there are still some, but they just haven't been born.

Huaguo has some so-called secret places, but they are not open to ordinary people. Haven't you discovered that there are many places in the world that humans cannot explore?Even satellites can't explore it, and there are several in Huaguo. "

Qingyan nodded, "I know, my parents and I have been there before, which is Shennongjia, but we can't enter it, we can only go around the periphery, is that the so-called secret place? Is there an expert inside?"

Chou Chou nodded and shook his head again, "Yes and no, some of them are man-made secret realms, that is, there are monks inside, and they have set up formations to isolate them.

Some are naturally formed, which is what later generations call magnetic field interference. In fact, the landform or the location of the mountains, rocks and trees inside are just right, directly forming a natural concealment formation or isolation formation.

Some people get lost as soon as they enter, or the high-tech products they bring in will malfunction and lose signal, all because of these reasons..."

Hearing this, Qingyan became a little excited. The places she and her parents went to just walked around and looked around. Even if she had guesses and curiosity, she didn't study it carefully. If she has a chance in the future, she should go and look for it. , in case you can meet an expert, you can try to learn from a teacher.

Thinking of what Chou Chou said before, the aura here is stronger, so he said with eyes full of expectation: "Then will there be monks in this time and space? Didn't you say that the aura here is much stronger than ours? Will you encounter monks?" Some people cultivating immortals? Or some other strange beasts? After all, it is not the same time and space, maybe there will be different strange beasts appearing."

Chou Chou shook his head and said: "I don't know about that. My current cultivation base has not recovered, which means that I have returned to my infancy. I can't sense it at all. Even if there is, it is impossible to enter the world like me and Xiangxiang. crowd.

If we hadn't met your parents, we would probably be recuperating in that kind of remote forest or space now. "

Qingyan nodded, as long as she kept this question in her heart, anyway, there are still hundreds of days left, so she can search slowly.

In this way, the next itinerary has a goal. After that, they can go to some famous Taoist temples or temples to have a look. In case there are any eminent monks or immortal cultivators, they can also visit them.

Of course, when the time comes, Chou Chou has to be hidden in the space in advance. If he really encounters that kind of power, it will be bad if he is exposed.

The force value of the two of them is not bad among mortals, but it is probably not enough in front of those high-level people.