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

Yiyang is now a county and belongs to Yuezhou, but due to its geographical location, it is still very prosperous.

They stayed at the best inn in the city. It can only be said that they were quite lucky. It was still open, but other shops were closed and would not open until after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

This inn was opened because the owner's family had no one, and even his son and grandson died of illness. He felt that it was too miserable for him to be alone, so he stayed in the inn.

It just so happened that there were still customers in the store, including a few businessmen who had not had time to go home a year ago, and then there were Qingyan and the others.

But when they stayed up late at night, Qingyan and the others knew why the five people didn't go back.

It turned out that they had brought a lot of goods from the north to sell, and after they were sold, they collected three cartloads of goods to take back. However, they encountered robbers on the road and all the goods were robbed.

Those people didn't mean to kill anyone, they just robbed the goods and let them go.

Fortunately, they had some money hidden on them, and they hid it very covertly, so they still had the money to come here and report it to the police here. But this is not a case that can be solved in a day or two, but they can't After a while, he started working as a part-time worker in the city.

They used to live in Datongpu, a small inn, but this was just the Chinese New Year. The inn was about to close and they were kicked out. Fortunately, there was still this inn, otherwise they would have slept on the street.

The three large trucks and goods were just gone. They must have to wait for the results. They borrowed money from relatives to buy half of them, so they were embarrassed to go back for a while.

I thought they could still have a good year if they didn't go back home, otherwise they would break the threshold if they went back to collect debts like this.

If they don't go back home, they will think that they have not sold out the goods and are delayed. In order to get a little more profit, they will not come to the door to do anything bad or say anything unpleasant.

If they go back, I'm afraid everyone will know that they have been robbed immediately. They will lose all their money and it is impossible not to make a fuss.

These were the five people who came out after drinking. The wine was invited by the innkeeper. Even the waiters had gone home to celebrate the New Year. He and his group were the only ones left in the store, so they decided to watch the New Year together in the lobby and prepared a party. Good food and wine on the table.

To be honest, this wine is pretty good nowadays, but it's still far behind their monkey wine.

But they didn't dare to take it out. After all, the monkey wine was brewed in a formation full of spiritual energy, and the fruit used was also grown inside. There would be some spiritual energy in it. In addition, after they received the space, the space inside The spiritual energy is more intense, making those wines already unusual.

Take it out, if the other party changes too obviously after drinking it, it will be difficult for them to explain.

To be honest, Qingyan still sympathizes with these five people. It can be seen that the five people are not the kind of cunning businessmen, nor are they expected to be businessmen, because they are a bit too honest.

This was not only visible in their behavior, but also in their faces. After all, she had also studied physiognomy for a while, so she could still see it.

Although the five people wanted to hide for a while and did not dare to go back, it was not that they wanted to default on the debt, they just wanted to see if the government could go to suppress the bandits and help them get the goods back.

Secondly, as mentioned before, I hope that my family members will have a good New Year, and my relatives will also have a good New Year, otherwise everyone will not have a good New Year.

Furthermore, they also knew that there was little hope of waiting for the government to suppress the bandits, so they had to earn some traveling expenses here, otherwise they would not be able to walk back due to the long distance.

Qingyan felt that it was fate that they were lucky enough to spend the New Year together, so she was ready to help them.

It's not that she wants to give them money directly, she's not as good as the Holy Mother yet, but she wants to help them get those goods back.

That's right, it was to help them find the stolen goods, even though they had been stolen for some time.

After all, they plan to transport the goods back to the north for sale, which means that they also have time to travel. It will take a month to go back to the north from here, which means that it will take at least a month for those goods to be robbed. It’s been months.

Therefore, those goods may have been disposed of by the robbers, but as long as the robbers can be found, even if the goods cannot be recovered, the equivalent value of silver can be taken back and they can buy more goods and take them back. If you take the goods back and sell them, won't the money come back to you?

So I took the opportunity of chatting and asked them where they met the robber. It was an easy excuse. They had to be on their way later, so they could hide away if they encountered him.

The five people did not doubt that he was there, and told them directly that the place where they met the robbers was really not far from here, just fifty miles south of Yiyang County.

Although it is not the direction they will go in the future, fifty miles is not very far, and they do not have to go there in person. With Chou Chou, it can directly use its spiritual consciousness to get those things back, and then it can also take those things back. If the robbers are sent to the government, they can be regarded as doing a good deed by eliminating harm for the people.

Of course, in fact, it would be better if Qingyan or Huang Jin did this. This is a good opportunity to earn merit. However, Jin Jin is practicing, and it will take at least a day or two to come and go. To be honest, it is completely useless. necessary.

So as soon as they finished talking about their location, Qingyan sent a message to Chou Chou, asking him to see if he could directly use his spiritual consciousness to find the robbers' lair and deal with them.

Chou Chou happily agreed and directly probed over there with his spiritual consciousness, and then soon sent a message to Qingyan: "The robbers' stronghold is in the mountains over there, in a valley, and the scenery is pretty good. , it’s quite lively there, and it’s the Chinese New Year too, and it’s really decorated with lanterns and festoons.

Um? No, well, the boss is marrying his daughter-in-law. I can’t blame the whole village for dressing up in bright red. This is a one-step process for marrying a daughter-in-law for the Chinese New Year.

Qingyan raised her eyebrows and asked, "Are those people carrying human lives on their bodies?"

Although these five people said that those people did not harm their lives, they might have harmed them before, but now they have changed their ways.

If there were no lives on those people's bodies, even if they went to the government, they wouldn't be sentenced to a heavy sentence. Or just take away the property they robbed. After all, even if they are sent to the government, the property will be confiscated and will probably not be returned to the owner. It is also confiscated.

And if there were lives among them, they would not be unjust if they were killed directly. Chou Chou could just take them to the government.

Chou Chou replied: "Yes, many of them have human lives. I didn't kill these five people this time. I guess they are marrying a daughter-in-law as the Chinese New Year is approaching and I want to avoid committing more crimes."

And because these five people like to do good deeds in their families, and they come from good families, they still have some merits to protect themselves. With merits, it is not impossible to turn misfortunes into good fortune, and turn disasters into good fortune. When Qingyan heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief, "In that case, let's send those who committed murderous crimes to the government to save them from harming others again."

It doesn't matter whether it is meritorious or not. Anyway, it is considered as eliminating harm for the people.

Chou Chou agreed as soon as he heard it. Those people happened to be drinking. Chou Chou didn't bother to use his spiritual consciousness to knock them out one by one. He made some drug and put it in the food they were drinking and eating, and put them directly. fall.

This medicine was developed by themselves after they learned to identify herbal medicines. It is actually a powder like sleeping pills. It will not knock you out instantly like what is shown on TV. It will take some time. After all, it is made from traditional Chinese medicine.

It didn't pick up the whole pot, it only took those with lives on them into its space, and then threw them in front of the gate of the county government.

He then used his consciousness to control the drum hammer and knocked on the drum in front of the door, and then ignored it. Anyway, those people could at least sleep for one night. As for causing trouble to the county government at night, that was not what it had to consider. .

This is not only trouble, but also an achievement. As long as they interrogate these people properly, they should be able to find out. As for those who have never killed anyone, as well as the women they snatched back, Chou Chou has not moved. Those people should be arrested later. Rescue them, or hold them accountable for the crimes they committed.

After that, Chou Chou continued to chat with them, and asked them how much silver their goods were worth, and whether the three vehicles were horse-drawn carriages or ox-carts.

Chou Chou is too lazy to retrieve them one by one, and it doesn’t make sense. It’s weird that it’s still intact after more than a month has passed, so it’s going to be converted into cash and brought back to them.

It just so happens that those people have been arrested now. It still has an excuse. It doesn't mean to find an excuse to give them the money. It means to change when the time comes and become like a yamen servant, and just send them the money. It is said that it is out of trial. Yes, by then these people probably won’t think too much and will just feel lucky.

The five people said that the goods in the three carts were basically specialties from the south, and the total amount was probably less than 200 taels. Chou Chou collected the whole thing for them, and got 300 taels of silver directly from the bandits' den. , as compensation for their fright.

It plans to find an opportunity to deliver it to them the day after tomorrow, just as they are preparing to leave the day after tomorrow.

That's right, Qingyan and the others plan to spend the first day of the new year here and leave on the second day of the new year.

I heard from the boss that there is a temple fair at Bailu Temple on Bailu Mountain on the first day of the new year. You can go there to join in the fun, buy some small things, and watch some opera performances.

When the boss said there were opera singers, Qingyan was stunned. She seemed to have heard her grandma say before that the Flower Drum Opera in Yiyang was very famous.

Grandma and grandma both liked it very much. They went to Yiyang together to listen to it, and they also studied the history of Flower Drum Opera. It was indeed passed down from the Song Dynasty, but was banned in the Qing Dynasty and was later released.

But it is said that it only existed from the late Northern Song Dynasty to the early Southern Song Dynasty. I didn't expect it to exist here now. This is too early again.

Forget it, she no longer worries about the direction of history. Anyway, this world is different from the one she lives in, so just treat it as a completely different time and space.

Because eating dumplings is not popular here, they started chatting after eating without making dumplings together. When they arrived at midnight, they heard the sound of crackling firecrackers coming from outside.

Several people also ran to the door with the boss. The boss had already prepared several bamboos and placed them at the door to poke.

I lit a fire and put the bamboo in it, and soon the crackling sound started to sound.

The smell of burning bamboo is much better than the smell of gunpowder from firecrackers set off in later generations. Although there is smoke and it is very choking when you are close, but when you are far away, there is only the fragrance of burning bamboo, which is still quite pleasant.

Qingyan looked around, because there were some closed shops around, it was quite deserted. After all, everyone went home to celebrate the New Year, and they must be burning bamboo at home, and would not come to the shops, so this street They are the only ones.

However, the sounds from other streets in front and behind kept coming. After all, they were not far away, so it was still very lively.

There were also some people who met neighbors who were lighting bamboo, and they said auspicious words to each other. They spoke the dialect here, but Qingyan could generally understand it. After all, the dialect here in Hunan is actually a little bit different except for some local dialects. The accent is not difficult to understand.

At least it is easier to understand than Cantonese and Hokkien. Of course, Cantonese Qingyan has no problem. After all, she often lived in Hong Kong with her mother since she was a child. When she was there, she always spoke Cantonese. Her Cantonese is definitely understood by the locals. No accent.

But this is not the case with Hokkien. Unless you look at other people's expressions and movements face to face and guess what they mean, you can't understand them at all.

After the bamboo was burned, they dispersed and went back to their rooms to rest. The boss also locked the door.

When they returned to the room, they carried the charcoal basin back. They had been in the lobby before. There was no one in the room, and they were afraid of catching fire, so it must be a little cold in the room. The charcoal basin was not finished burning, and it was added before. Once the charcoal is fired, it just happens to be taken inside the house, so you can save it and light it again.

The boss slept on the first floor, and the five people also slept in the Datong Shop on the first floor. To save money, Qingyan and the others slept in the upper room on the second floor.

After all, if there is no shortage of money, it will definitely be the best place to live.

After returning to the house, they placed the charcoal basin in the center of the house out of the way, and then returned to the space to rest.

There was no fire in the house before, and it was cold and cold. It was more comfortable in the space. There was a comfortable place, so there was no need to make yourself suffer.

After returning to the space, they called Huang Jin and Yuan Bao out for another meal of dumplings. Qingyan was from the north, so she always felt like she was missing something if she didn't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

They had made the dumplings when they had nothing to do before, and put them in Chou Chou's place to keep them fresh. They could just take them out and cook them, which was very convenient.

There are four kinds of fillings in total, including beef and green onion fillings, mutton and carrot fillings, pork and cabbage fillings, and of course a vegetarian filling, which is leek and egg filling. A little bit of each is cooked, so everyone can eat it together. It’s a reunion year.

After that, they chatted together for a while, until they couldn't bear it anymore, and then they went back to their rooms to sleep.