Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 262 Trip to the Capital (10)

A line of sky, as the name suggests, is a cliff with narrow roads and steep mountains, because there is only one road leading to Wuyang. People who walk darts all the year round know about the line of sky. You must be very careful when you are in the rain, for fear that if you are not careful, you will fall to pieces, not to mention that it has just rained, especially seeing that the rain in front of you has not stopped, I really don’t know what will happen tomorrow Can the day pass.

At this time, Zhou Huaiyan was constantly weighing the pros and cons of changing the road. It is undeniable that if the line cannot go tomorrow, it is impossible for the team to wait here for two days. batch of goods.But if they switch to the small road, they can catch up in time, but the safety of this batch of goods will be greatly compromised. After all, the most important thing for them to go is safety first, so as to ensure that the goods are not lost.

This... is also a bit difficult. The frequency of finger tapping is constantly accelerating, and the thoughts in Zhou Huaiyan's eyes are constantly changing. In the end, he decided to take a risk. After all, this batch of goods was delivered late, and the Zhou family could not bear the blame. rise.

Thinking about this, Zhou Huaiyan turned his head, and quickly raised his hand to Master Wang, "If you can't leave tomorrow, then you still have to trouble Master Wang to change the route. This batch of goods is a bit rushed, and it's too late. Our Zhou family can’t afford it, so I’ll leave everything to you,” Zhou Huaiyan said at the end, and even bowed to the people around him. This batch of goods is related to their entire Zhou family. will also be blamed.

Right now, not only Master Wang, but even other people in the Escort have felt Zhou Huaiyan's seriousness. This escort is also related to the reputation of their Escort. They will take it seriously, and they will also do their best to face Zhou Huaiyan's entrustment. ensure.

"You must live up to your entrustment"*n
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After one night, the wind stopped and the rain suddenly stopped.

After a torrential rain, the spring breeze brought a little coolness. When she woke up in the morning, Chunqiu put on a set of thick clothes that her mother brought her. When she first got them, her mother said that a set of clothes was for emergencies , As a result, Chunqiu really put it on.

Chunqiu put the replaced dress back into the baggage. Chunqiu moved the packed baggage back to the carriage, sat in the carriage, and looked down at the dart boxes that were being moved around. Although it rained heavily last night, it was broken. The back of the temple also leaked rain due to long-term disrepair, but because of early preparations, these dart boxes containing Chinese herbal medicines did not get rained.

Hearing Master Wang's familiar voice, the escort team officially set off.

Because of the heavy rain last night, the official road was not easy to walk. There were muddy puddles and raised rocks everywhere. Sitting in the carriage, Chunqiu could clearly feel the more violent bumps than before.

Holding the handle on the side of the carriage, Chunqiu folded the blanket under his buttocks a few more times, and then laid it out, so that his buttocks could feel better when sitting up. The official roads in ancient times were not as smooth as the suet roads in later generations. It was better before it rained, and Chunqiu could bear it for a while, but now it rains, the problems on the road are further exposed, and now the carriage is moving slowly, the feeling of up and down, swaying from side to side is even worse. Obviously, Chunqiu doesn't want to feel like he's falling apart when he's resting at night.

"Stop..."

Master Wang rode a big horse and walked in front of the escort cart. He didn't reach out to stop the team behind him until he saw the half-blocked road not far in front of him.

"Master Zhou, the road ahead is blocked." Master Wang turned his head with a serious face, and ran to Zhou Huaiyan's carriage with the horse under his feet.

Zhou Huaiyan heard the voice, lifted the curtain directly, and glanced forward.

Sure enough, due to the heavy rain last night, most of the place in front had been washed away, and most of the road that could be walked on the cliff was also blocked by the mud washed down from the mountain, and it was muddy everywhere. Zhou Huaiyan frowned, the road in front of him was impassable.

Zhou Huaiyan turned his head and said to Master Wang beside him, "Master Wang, change the way."

The road in front of them was blocked, and Zhou Huaiyan didn't worry about it, he didn't have time to spend here, so they had to change the road.

Hearing Zhou Huaiyan's words, Master Wang was not surprised. After all, he was an old escort. Yesterday's torrential rain had already given him a judgment. He bowed his hands to Zhou Huaiyan, and Master Wang pulled up the horse rope and rushed the horses under his feet to the escort team. At the front of the car, he said in a low voice to the surrounding people who were waiting for orders, "Turn the car around, let's turn back to the original road, and change the road."

Hearing Master Wang's words, the carriages of the entire convoy slowly turned a corner, and drove back the way they had come before.

Back at the original fork in the road, Master Wang led the way and walked on the obviously bumpy path.

The small road is not a road opened by the government, but a road gradually formed due to driving all the year round.

Changing the road this time, Chunqiu obviously felt that it was different from the road he took before. As for the reason, it was very simple. The baggage stacked on the side of the carriage had been rolled down several times. You know, even if they took the official road after the rain before , not as bumpy as it is now.

After being nearly thrown out again, Chunqiu finally gave up the armrests inside the carriage, and instead placed the surrounding baggage on the four corners of the carriage. He was also wrapped in a quilt and lay down straight down, his legs slightly twitching. Separated to hold the two sides of the carriage, with the clothes under his head, Chunqiu opened his eyes and looked at the swaying board above his head, trying his best to stabilize the balance of his body.

In special times and special measures, Chunqiu doesn't want to sit at all, and now he can only lie down to be safer.

In the next two days, Chunqiu didn't sit up at all, and was so dazed by the carriage that he couldn't even eat his usual meals. This feeling was the same as the motion sickness of later generations, but fortunately Zhou Huaiyan brought some The herbal medicine for calming the nerves, after drinking it, the symptoms were relieved a lot.

In this way, they rushed quickly, and finally arrived at the border of Qingzhou in the early morning four days later. At that time, as long as they crossed the border, they would be able to enter the capital.

Seeing the two houses of "Yanmen" on the top of the city gate, everyone inside took a deep breath and entered the city, which meant that they finally had time to rest now.

Escort cars entered this small border town named Yanmen mightily.

Yanmen is not big. When Chunqiu entered the city, he carefully observed the surrounding environment, and found that Yanmen was about the same size as Heishan Town, and much smaller than Linfang.

However, Yanmen is not a big place, but there is a lot of traffic. It is no wonder that most people use it as a post station for entering the capital. It has been found that there are no fewer than ten inns around.Although there are many inns and restaurants, these do not mean that they have a place to stay. It should be noted that there are many people who pass by here every day and plan to stay overnight. rest.

(End of this chapter)