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

Chapter 229 Qingyuan Mountain (please subscribe for monthly ticket)

Since Aunt Chen was not the person who met over there in the past, it means that the person who went to Qingyuan Temple was someone else, so it was difficult to follow, and I could only keep staring at the third fasting room in the backyard.

Fortunately, yesterday I learned that Chou Chou can use a ray of consciousness to monitor several places at the same time, so that they will not be delayed in the temple fair.

Otherwise, it would be so hard to go to the temple fair, patronize and follow with the divine sense, and the good opportunity to play will be wasted.

The carriages followed the team slowly out of the city, among which were some guards on horseback.

Some travel in a carriage with only the driver or servants sitting on the shaft outside.

Ordinarily Mrs. Wang and Wang Qingyue are the wives and misses of the Tongpan family, and they can also bring guards. Of course, they can't be this kind of soldiers on horseback, but the kind of guards trained by their own mansion.

The guards in front of them, riding horses and wearing sergeant uniforms, should be female relatives of military officials.

Apart from the garrison, there are other generals and officials in this Qinzhou mansion, and there are not no officials who are second only to the garrison, and they should be the wives and ladies of those families.

When the military commander's family reaches a certain level, they are allowed to have soldiers, but they cannot exceed a certain number.

And these civil servants can only use the guards they recruited themselves, and they are allowed to carry knives, but they can't wear military uniforms, which can be regarded as a kind of disguised soldiers.

It's just that you can't transfer people from the army, you can only recruit people from the market.

This time is not like the later generations. There are veterans who can do some security guard work. Now the veterans are all old, weak, sick and disabled. They are either injured and can no longer fight, or they are too old to leave the army.

Those who are in their prime of life will not let you retire from the army. Now I can't wait to conscript again. The more the number, the better.There will be no disarmament situation.

If you want to find a guard with martial arts, you can find some people in the market. Most of those people have family or sect inheritance, and they have martial arts themselves.

Or find some half-children who are strong and powerful, buy them in Fuzhong, and have them trained in the nursing home at home. After learning, they can help take care of the nursing home.

So there are quite a lot of horse-drawn people in this line, which is also good, it is safer to have so many people together.

Although Qingyuan Mountain is not far from the capital city of Qinzhou, it can be said that it is only a few miles east of the city.

But after entering the mountain, there is still a section of mountain road. I heard that the forest is very dense on that mountain road. If there are few people walking, it will still be quite crowded.

The Qingyuan Temple is on the top of the mountain. Fortunately, the mountain is not too steep, there is a winding road to walk, and the horse-drawn carriage can go directly to the top of the mountain and even enter the temple.

Unlike some temples, you can only drive your car down the mountain, and then you have to climb a lot of steps to go up to the top of the mountain to burn incense and worship Buddha.

On the way out of the city, I also listened to Xue Huaner's introduction of the temple fair in previous years.

At first, Qingyan thought that the temple was on the mountain, and the temple fair was at the bottom of the mountain, and then the people who went to the temple to hold ceremonies and the festival and those who visited the temple fair at the bottom of the mountain would not disturb each other.

Unexpectedly, it was not. Both the temple fair and the Dharma assembly were on the top of the mountain, but the temple fair was in the open space outside the temple, and the Dharma assembly was inside the temple.

The top of Qingyuan Mountain is quite flat, except for the place where the temple is built, there is a large open space outside.

Those places are used by the monks in the temple. They usually grow some food and vegetables for self-sufficiency. There are also some pergolas next to them for the rest of the pilgrims who usually go up the mountain or pass by.

It's winter now, and the food and vegetables are gone. The open space is just used to hold the temple fair, and the food or vegetables will not be wasted. It can also generate income for the temple, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

It may be because their team is quite long and there are many people, and because they are really close to the capital city, there is no place for bandits to gain a foothold, so the journey was very smooth, and they arrived at the foot of the mountain in less than half an hour.

There are some villages at the foot of the mountain, there are cave dwellings and adobe houses, and there are ridges and ridges of fields beside the road, but there is nothing planted now, it is empty, and it looks a bit desolate.

The road around the village is not smooth, and the carriage is quite bumpy, but the road is still wide, and it is no problem to walk two or three carriages side by side.So if they think their team is walking slowly, some carriages will pass by from time to time.

Of course, they are basically the kind of carts without carriages, which are lighter and faster.

Those with wooden carriages like theirs are too bumpy when they go fast, and they shake a lot, and they are always afraid that they will overturn, so they can't get up at all.

It is worth mentioning that the carriage that Qingyan and the others were riding in today was pulled by two horses, one of which belonged to Xue Huaner's house, and the other was Big Bear.

There's no way, I didn't want to take it with me at first, but Big Bear has been suffocating in the stable for the past few days. When he heard that they were going out to visit the temple fair, this guy quit, kicked up there, and insisted on coming out with him.

Qingyan was afraid that it would tear down other people's stables, so she had to take it out with her.

Fortunately, Xue Huan'er's family has this kind of carriage that can carry two horses. The carriage of this kind of carriage is wider than that of one horse, and it can accommodate five or six people in it, just as they and the maids can sit down.

Fortunately, it's not just their cars, there are also a few two-horse carts in front, especially those with a lot of people coming out of their homes, they all use this kind of carriage with a wider compartment, so this one for them is not too abrupt.

Of course, there are differences between carriages. Their carriages are not as exquisite as others'. Those carriages are not only carved with flowers, but also wider. Theirs seems to be a bit crowded with two horses.

Qingyan saw Big Bear hitting the horse next to him with his butt a few times. Fortunately, it didn't go too far and was quite obedient, otherwise their car would probably go crookedly.

But even so, from the cheerful little steps of the big bear, you can feel the joy in its heart.

When the groom harnessed the cart before going out today, he praised the big bear, saying that he looked like a steed with spirituality, and he was a rare good horse.

You may not be able to see it just by looking at the big bear. When it is put together with other horses, you can tell at a glance that its mental outlook is different. Not to mention its special spirit, its eyes are wandering around. clever.

And I don't know if he ate too much tender grass that Chou Chou put in the space, anyway, he is now much stronger than other horses, and his fur is smoother.

If it didn't look like an ordinary horse, it would be easy for people to think it was a famous horse.

It was about to go up the mountain, and looking at the obviously narrowing mountain road, Qingyan asked Chouchou to tell Big Bear to keep pace with the other horse's pace, and not to overturn on the mountain road.

After reaching the mountain road, it gradually narrowed, and the narrower carriage could still miss a carriage, while carriages like theirs could only travel in a single line.

Fortunately, there is no car coming down the mountain, otherwise it would be more troublesome to miss the car. Although there are no cliffs on both sides of the road, there are trees.

There are thick trees blocking the way. If you want to miss the car, you can only find some trees with a large gap between the trees, stop there first, and let other carriages pass by before moving on. Otherwise, there is no way to stagger the road. .

In particular, there are a lot of large cars in their convoy, so the width of the car is wider and it occupies more roads.

People on horseback must give way to the side when passing by.

Because today is the second day of the temple fair, when they went up, they didn't meet any people who were pulling goods or carrying burdens to set up a stall. They should have been shipped up yesterday.

The front and back are basically people driving cars to visit the temple fair, because they are slow, and the cars behind are slowly catching up.

Some were driving ox carts or donkey carts, probably from nearby towns or counties a little farther away.

In some cases, a family sat directly on the cart, and a donkey cart behind them also built a simple shed.

Just like Qingyan's previous shed for the donkey cart, it was also made of mats, and the inside was also made of bamboo poles.

But it's much simpler than hers. I just made a layer of mats to block the top and the left and right sides, and the front and rear are open without blocking.

The roof is also arched, not waterproof or windproof, but only to block the sun.

The space inside is also much smaller, only two people can sit, and they have to be squeezed together.

This was the first time she saw a shed that was made the same as hers after she came here, and she didn't know if the other party came up with it herself, or if she had seen her donkey cart shed before.

At first attracted by the shed of the cart, Qingyan curiously explored it with her spiritual sense, only to find out that the two people on the donkey cart were still her acquaintances.

It's not accurate to say that. It should be said that she knew the other party unilaterally, and the other party didn't know her.

Because she just saw those two people yesterday, of course she "saw" them with her spiritual sense, they were two of the brothers who took the note from the old doctor of Huichuntang and went to see them.

Qingyan raised her eyebrows and narrowed her eyes. It seemed that these two were the ones who went to meet in Qingyuan Temple. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that they just received a note yesterday and came here today.

And the car shed, she might have thought it was a coincidence before, but now she doesn't.

She even thought about it, all the carriages, ox carts, and donkey carts she saw along the way were either empty or wooden carriages. At most, if there was something on them, they would be covered with a layer of matting or tarpaulin. .

Only theirs is a shed made of bamboo poles and skeleton mats, not to mention exactly the same as her original donkey cart, but also eight or nine points similar.

If the other party didn't come up with this idea, then she must have seen the donkey cart she used to, and coincidentally, this cart is also a donkey cart...

Qingyan suddenly thought of one thing. She sold the donkey cart to Miss He's family. Could it be that she had publicized the style of the cart shed?
So now some people know how to use this kind of shed. If so, it has been more than ten years. If it is spread, it can be seen here now, then it is considered popular.

That's not right, she hadn't seen it before, at least she's only seen this one so far. Is it possible that that car actually fell into the hands of the people who chased and killed Miss He? Those people are a bunch of people...

Back then, she didn't understand why those people wanted to hunt down Ms. He. After all, she didn't ask much when they met by chance. Although those people were considered tall, they could tell that they were not foreigners.

Of course, it doesn't mean that it has nothing to do with foreigners. Just like the two people now, they don't look like foreigners, but when she heard them talking yesterday, the foreign language they used was very similar to the Xinjiang dialect of later generations. .

So even if these people are not foreigners, they may work for foreigners. Is it possible that they are the same as people from more than ten years ago?

Of course, this is just her conjecture, and it's also a way of thinking. It doesn't really matter whether it is true or not, after all, it has been more than ten years.

Ms. He and Xue Huan'er said that now that she has become the queen of the dynasty, it means that she must have escaped safely back then.

If you want to know if they are a group of people, just continue to observe.

The donkey cart followed their carriage, for it was the last of these official wives.

In front was the carriage of the Wang family, and the one in front belonged to Mrs. Bie's wife. This donkey cart fell behind them. Even if it was light, it couldn't overtake because of the narrow road.

It's convenient for Qingyan, who can observe them carefully, anyway, she will not be discovered by the other party if she uses divine sense.

However, the two of them were sitting alone in the car, and the other was driving the car. They didn't communicate with each other along the way, and they didn't even say a word of commonplace, as if they were performing a pantomime.

If it wasn't for Li Muxue chatting about the things she wanted to buy and the sideshows she wanted to see along the way, she almost fell asleep.

It was really boring, so she told Chouchou about this discovery through sound transmission, and diverted her attention by the way.

Chou Chou kept staring at the fasting room in the backyard of Qingyuan Temple with his spiritual sense, and replied after hearing what she said: "Another target person should appear soon, just now a young novice went in to clean the third fasting room in the backyard. .

I kept watching, and there was nothing wrong with the little novice, just the normal cleaning before the guests moved in, and nothing was put or taken away.

People should be moving in soon, but it's been a while, and the people haven't arrived yet, so I don't know if it's these two people or someone else. "

Qingyan thinks that it is not the room that these two people booked, because they received the note, and it seems that they should be the one who went to the appointment, and judging by their dress and travel equipment today, it does not seem to be a fixed room. People in the fasting room.

Xue Huan'er said that the fasting rooms at the back of Qingyuan Temple are reserved for those with more status to rest, and they are all private courtyards with a quiet and elegant environment.

Ordinary people, most of them would not go to the fasting room at the back of Huayinliang's residence, they would all be in the pergola in front or the place in the temple to receive ordinary pilgrims.

Although vegetarian dishes are also provided there, it is not the quiet environment of a single courtyard, but a group of people squeezed together, there are futons to sit on, and there are also some tables, chairs and benches.

(End of this chapter)